Praise and Reviews

A WAITER IN PARIS by Edward Chisholm (Pegasus)

A WAITER IN PARIS by Edward Chisholm Receives Starred Review from Publishers Weekly

“Bittersweet and enchanting, this serves as a potent look at the gritty underbelly of a glittering world.”

Dirty Picture: A free-wheeling, frank account of the rise and fall of the underground comic scene. Doherty, a senior editor at Reason magazine and author of This Is Burning Man, serves up a tale of underground comix, “the ‘x’ to mark them as distinct from the mainstream comics to which they were in opposition.” Perhaps the best known of their creators is cartoonist R. Crumb, who, despite what today are considered “problematic” depictions of gender and race, has evolved into an artist taken seriously enough to exhibit at major museums. Doherty’s pioneering players share the idea that just as music and film were breaking free of conventions in the countercultural era of the 1960s, so comix, “born of smartass rebel kids,” could become revolutionary vehicles for the mores and attitudes of the day. A major difference was that music and film had big corporations behind them, while comix were largely homegrown, underfunded affairs. Crumb, through the pages of Zap! and other seat-of-the-pants magazines, became internationally famous. So did Art Spiegelman, who early on “realized he could not make himself draw something he wasn’t intellectually or emotionally drawn to for the rest of his life” and who began to imagine a Holocaust-era tale of cats and mice half a century ago, well beforeMaus brought him to mainstream attention. Doherty pokes into every corner of the scene, recounting how the always entrepreneurial Stan Lee tried to co-opt it with a Marvel sort-of-comix book and noting that where only a few male artists are remembered today, plenty of women such as Trina Robbins made great art and deserve more attention. While the author closes with a grim recitation of artists and publishers who fell victim to drugs, alcohol, or the various ailments of old age, he observes that comix exert cultural influence today. Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes; just the thing for comix aficionados and collectors by Brian Doherty

Kirkus Reviews DIRTY PICTURES by Brian Doherty

“A free-wheeling, frank account of the rise and fall of the underground comic scene. …Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes; just the thing for comix aficionados and collectors.”

The Wall Street Journal reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“…ostensibly a memoir about an oddball canine romance. Its deeper subject, though, is the romance of cities, particularly New York…”

CBS News features WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

Martha and the book were the subject of segments on CBS Sunday Morning and CBS This Morning

WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner is an instant New York Times Bestseller

The book debuts at number 11 on the Print Hardcover Nonfiction list and number 10 on the Combined Print & E-Book list of February 21, 2021

The Washington Post reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“…we all have the capacity to create and build new friendships and attachments at whatever age or stage of life.”

Louise Penny Praises WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE by Martha Teichner (Celadon, February 2021)

“This is a love story, masterful, warm and funny, heartfelt and heartbreaking. I absolutely loved this book.”

Wall Street Journal Reviews ANNI AND JOSEF ALBERS: Equal and Unequal by Nicholas Fox Weber

“With its staggering array of photos and reproductions, this is a book meant to be browsed and savored rather than read straight through.”

Booklist reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“…anyone will find much to savor here—love of dogs not even required.”

The Magazine Antiques Reviews THE LOUVRE by James Gardner

“…retells and retraces the evolution of one of the world’s most complex architectural palimpsests with elegance, economy, and wit.”