by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 14, 2016 | Dalenberg Library Gallery, Vintage
If you love musical theater, sooner or later you have to come to a reckoning with Paul Simon’s unjustly maligned masterwork “The Capeman,” which had a brief, tumultuous run on Broadway in 1998. I count myself lucky to have attended one of those preciously rare 68...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 8, 2016 | Dalenberg Library Gallery, Vintage
Here is our time-worn copy of the The Kinks’ album Arthur from 1969, released in the US on Reprise Records division of what was then called Warner Bros-Seven Arts Records. Cover rubbed from years of being repeatedly taken on and off the shelf for a...
by Dale Dalenberg | May 24, 2015 | Antique Book Reports, Books, Reviews, Vintage
Great Books from The Dalenberg Library: In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space, by Douglas Curran (Abbeville Press, originally published 1985; updated and expanded 2001) Mr. Curran started out as a photographer with an interest in snapping...
by Alex Dalenberg | Feb 9, 2015 | Fantasy, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.February 9, 2015It is hard to believe these days, considering its popularity in the movies and pervasiveness on bestseller lists, but science fiction has only been around for less than 100 years. Much has been written about the origins...
by Alex Dalenberg | Jan 5, 2015 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.January 5, 2015It was Robert Frost who likened writing free verse to playing tennis with the net down. And in keeping with that opinion, it certainly is easy to get the impression that most modern poetry is just lazy writing. ...
by Alex Dalenberg | Dec 29, 2014 | Books, Vintage
By Dale D. Dalenberg, M.D.December 29, 2014A cornerstone of the Dalenberg Library is a collection of about six-hundred 19th Century dime novels. These are the wellspring from which pop-lit (as we know it from the 20th Century) evolved. The dime novels,...
