MESSAGES FROM SPACE

SITES OF IMPACT

Meteorite Craters From Around the World
Stan Gaz

hardcover, 2009

60.00

Earth has 170 documented scars from falling space rocks. A single meteorite can leave a wound as big as 236 miles wide (like South Africa's Vredefort Dome). The best-preserved impact sites are often difficult to access – buried under ice, obscured by foliage, or baking in desert climes. These desolate landscapes are connected to another place outside of our world, and for photographer Stan Gaz they are sites of pilgrimage – steps in a journey begun as a curious young boy accompanying his father on geological expeditions, and culminating in a six-year journey traveling the globe in search of these sites -- resulting in these epic 85 black & white aerial photographs from Namibia, South Africa, Australia, the United States and elsewhere.

THE LONELY DOLL

THE SECRET LIFE OF THE LONELY DOLL
The Search for Dare Wright
Jean Nathans
paper, 2005
7.95........ was 15.00

In 1957, The Lonely Doll made model/actress turned author/photographer Dare Wright famous. The children's book told the story of Edith, a lonely doll until two teddy bears—a father and son—come to live with her.

Nearly forty years later, writer Jean Nathan decided to find out whatever happened to the author of favorite book as a child. What she discovered was a tragic and disturbing tale of family secrets, a mother/daughter relationship like no other, and a creative life gone to waste. Haunting.

THINGS I DID THIS SUMMER...

Has it been nearly two months since my last entry?

Discovered some great new titles over the summer -- Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dave Eggers' wonderful true fiction What is the What (highly recommended), the lurid Stripmall Bohemia by Jethro Paris, and Jean Nathan's The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, the tragic biography of children's author Dare Wright. In art and photography, highest on the list would have to be Kinsey Photographer featuring the duotone photographs of the Pacific Northwest taken in the first half of the 20th century by Darius and Tabitha Kinsey.

More to come...