The Life Of Edward Gorey, Told By An Old Friend

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1. The Life Of Edward Gorey, Told By An Old Friend

   Gorey died in 2000 at the age of 75. Not long after, a slim paperback called The Strange Case of Edward Gorey was published. It was written by Alexander Theroux, one of Gorey’s close friends — he had few. Recently, Theroux went back to the now-out-of-print original monograph to rewrite, expand and redesign it. It’s just been published in hardcover, and Theroux spoke to Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about his peculiar longtime friend.

   http://www.npr.org/2011/02/20/133869853/the-life-of-edward-gorey-told-by-an-old-friend

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2. Legendary Cartoonist Gahan Wilson: Interview on The Sound of Young America

   Gahan Wilson is perhaps America’s most legendary cartoonist. For more than 50 years, his distinctively twisted single-panel cartoons have appeared in magazines like Playboy and The New Yorker. His work often follows in the footsteps of his mentor Charles Addams, but in contrast to Addams’ Victorian sensibility, Wilson’s take on the macabre is loopy and anarchistic. Fantagraphics Books has just released an anthology of Wilson’s 50 years of Playboy cartoons.

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3. Interview: Tom Standage

   There is nothing new under the sun, says Ecclesiastes, and when it comes to social media Tom Standage has set out to prove the saying right. His day job is as a journalist and the digital editor at The Economist. But he’s also the author of a book called The Victorian Internet. And he’s got another in the pipeline called Cicero’s Web. I began by asking him about a technology which totally transformed Australian life in the Victorian era - the telegraph wire.

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