Paul Collins
2) The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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The “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York Times)
AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The...
AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The...
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"After 30 years as a studio artist, Paul Collins explains, "I am striving to work publicly and visibly in a way that matters in both aesthetic and political terms. I have made the switch from a studio-based practice to working exclusively in public spaces. This change has facilitated connections between a practice of aesthetic observation of the landscape with journalism, performance and interactive documentary. For each project I have spent 14 days...
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Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and notorious writer of his day. He died broke and alone at the age of forty, but not before he had written some of the greatest works in the English language, from the chilling "The Tell-Tale Heart" to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"--the first modern detective story--to the iconic poem "The Raven." Poe's life...
19) Peter Pan
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Wendy and her brothers embark on fantastic adventures with the hero of their bedtime stories, Peter Pan! With faith, trust and Tinker Bell's pixie dust, Peter teaches them how to fly and leads them to the "second star to the right" and beyond, to Never Land!