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THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE | Maclean's


THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE
For years Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan has been preaching his theories of mass communications but hardly anybody understood him. Now, suddenly, he’s becoming the hottest intellectual fad since Zen Buddhism
July 3 1965
ALEXANDER ROSS
THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE
ALEXANDER ROSS
July 3 1965
THE HIGH PRIEST OF POP CULTURE
For years Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan has been preaching his theories of mass communications but hardly anybody understood him. Now, suddenly, he’s becoming the hottest intellectual fad since Zen Buddhism
July 3 1965
ALEXANDER ROSS
Was it a Happening? Was it a huge practical joke staged by a bunch of mad professors? Or was it a serious tribute to the best-kn ....

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The slow (imminent) death of books and bookstores


Once more unto the breach, dear bibliophiles, once more, stiffen the sinews, summon the blood and come to the rescue of your beloved books and bookstores, now under assault by their arch-enemy e-books, e-commerce and sundry e-snakes in the grass like Amazon and other retail behemoths.
Independent bookstores are not altogether extinct, not yet, but these days you find them where they lie on their deathbed, soon to pass into oblivion. Only if you’re old enough, would you remember the wondrous sense of enchantment you felt when you entered one and got lost there.
And the store didn’t need to have been bohemian, say, like Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, which opened in 1922 in the Latin Quarter and went on to become a gathering place for then aspiring expat American writers like Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nor did it need to have been, say, like Strand in Manhattan’s East Village, which lasted through the Great Depression and later became a haun ....

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The Zacharias Ascaris Affair


The Zacharias Ascaris Affair
It all began five years ago, going on six. Ballast Publishing, a fledgling British publishing house, had just launched the first (and last) novel of its catalog,
The Zacharias Ascaris Affair. No one, absolutely no one, could have foreseen the upheaval that this book would set in motion.
Admittedly, the adventures of the young Zacharias Ascaris, though narrated with an undeniable flair for suspense, were in no way extraordinary. A group of adolescents, a few twists, a love story, a touch of the supernatural it was a proven but far from original formula, and ordinarily the featureless book should have faded and been swept away after a few months by the tidal flux of the literary industry. ....

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