Oh, You Beautiful Doll

A coworker said it best: There aren't many books that can appeal to both the doll collector and the true crime enthusiast. But we've got the book that straddles that line. The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death is a collection of photographs of crime scenes, reconstructed using dolls.The creepy/compelling scenes are the work of Frances … Continue reading Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Rough Guides

Thomas Kohnstamm's new memoir Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? is causing great anxiety among the folks at Lonely Planet. It turns out that Kohnstamm faked his contributions to a dozen of the publisher's books, including their guide to Columbia. “I wrote the book in San Francisco,” he confessed. “I got the information from a … Continue reading Rough Guides