Let’s Bring Back Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang Next!
Over at Boing Boing, Xeni Jardin wondered aloud if the term “straight edge” dated back to the beginning of the 20th century, as evidenced in these 1906 newspaper illustrations. It’s for real: I saw the menu for the Straight Edge Kitchen at New York Eats Out, a very cool NYPL exhibit.
The pictures, by the way, come from the American Newspaper Repository, which was founded by Nicholson Baker. Its origins are recounted in Double Fold.
6 January 2004 | uncategorized |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
