Extinct Boids

Having long illustrated the writings of Hunter S. Thompson, artist Ralph Steadman boasts nearly five decades worth of work capturing his wide-ranging interests beyond the gonzo sphere. His latest masterpiece goes the Audubon route, offering us over 100 depictions of bird species that no longer exist -- as well as a few that never did!

 

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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