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Mark Sarvas
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American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. Scold-proof.
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
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The world’s first fully-automatic photographic machine debuted in New York City in 1925. Anatol Josepho's "Photomaton" was so popular that people lined up for hours to try it out. At the time, photo strips cost 25¢ and took eight minutes to process and print.

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[Man, woman, and children] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
[Man, woman, and children] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); about 1950–1960; Unknown; Gelatin silver print; Image: 4.8 × 4 cm (1 7/8 × 1 9/16 in.); 2009.141.381.4
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have a vague memory of reading ABC Murders in my teens (went through a major Christie phase) and being amused by its cleverness; but I have no idea if it holds up.
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Your day has been a reminder (as if one was needed) that lack of, oh, knowledge or experience is no barrier at all to having an opinion. I rarely think the so-called democratization of the web is all it's cracked up to be ...
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
The tattered remains of the gray lady is, I think, THE media story of the 21st century ...
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Holocaust denier jailed | Guardian Weekly | guardian.co.uk
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November 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Irving is a disgraced Holocaust denier, fwiw ...
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I have been saying for YEARS that they should reboot Bond and set it in the 1950s, the original period of the novels. I could write the crap out of that ...
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM