Lockdown Book Detective

@nyttypos @Rogene Joseph Wambaugh obit misspells the name of author James Conaway. (Conaway was a novelist in 1973, but was later better known for his non-fiction.) simonandschuster.com/authors…

Ending with Alexander von Humboldt was fitting, but it should have been noted that von Humboldt was played by …. none other than Werner Herzog in the 2013 film Die Andere Heimat (Home Away from Home) directed by Edgar Reitz (center second photo).

Here’s another curious title Peter Mayer acquired for the Avon reprint list during the brief rounded-corners era of 1964-65. “The first of Mr. Kahn’s books in paperback!” (When Dr. Strangelove was released in 1964 Kahn asked Stanley Kubick for royalties.)

Hadn’t thought of that name in years. Dortort (1916-2010) was longtime producer of “Bonanza.”

We published two novels by Percival Everett in the mid-‘80s; Cork Smith brought him to T&F after publishing SUDER at Viking. I was glad that Fiona McCrae stuck with him later at Graywolf. (I recall telling Fiona in the early 1990s that he had a small but notable following.)

Here is the Harvey Dunn that used to be on the wall of Tip O’Neill’s Capitol Hill office in the 1980s.

Just sighted on MSNBC. Harvey Dunn’s “Something for Supper” (Collection of South Dakota Art Museum) evidently on loan in the DC office of Sen. Mike Rounds. Tip O’Neill also had a Harvey Dunn (1884 – 1952) of “Paul Revere’s Ride” in his Capitol office when Speaker of the House.

In case you missed it. Note the Hitchcock cameo in that clip: back dust jacket photo on ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S FIRESIDE BOOK OF SUSPENSE.

That clip has the most subtle and fleeting of all Hitchcock cameos: the back dj photo on ALFRED HITCHOCK’S FIRESIDE BOOK OF SUSPENSE.

Carl Sagan thought it a suitable background when he introduced the Pioneer 10 plaque in 1972. (Boston City Hall was considered futuristic back then.)