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Rob Verchick Selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2023-2024 Fellow

On May 5th, Rob Verchick was named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful, and the vast: from reckoning with the challenges of climate change to creating digital models of iconic Italian violins to detecting distant galaxies.

Financial Times Reviews THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick

“His book tackles one of the most fraught climate policy questions: what should be done to adapt to a world facing growing evidence of climate stress?”

John M. Barry praises THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick as a “tour and a tour-de-force on the subject”

“Rob Verchick has given us both a tour of and a tour de force on the subject. Ranging from comparative anatomy to anthropology, history, philosophy, engineering, and politics, this is a fascinating, provocative—and important—book.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse praises THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick “a smart roadmap for planning for the future on a changing planet.”

“Rob Verchick has created a smart roadmap for planning for the future on a changing planet.”

Po Bronson praises THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick

“…a very important addition to the canon of climate literature—thinking ahead even further out, investigating the colossal mess…”

Michael Hardt praises THE NEW POWER ELITE by Heather Gautney a “worthy successor to Mills’ classic polemic”

“This worthy successor to Mills’ classic polemic reveals the enormous obstacles that face any project for democracy and equality in the US.”

Chuck Collins praises THE NEW POWER ELITE by Heather Gautney as an Essential Read

“An essential read for our oligarchic times.

Greg Grandin praises THE NEW POWER ELITE by Heather Gautney as Required Reading

“Make it the one-city-one-book for every town and college in the nation. Hand it out to new citizens at their swearing-in ceremonies.”

Cornel West praises THE NEW POWER ELITE by Heather Gautney as “Brilliant and Courageous”

“This powerful and profound text shows what the road to American fascism looks like if we do not heed her call for radical democratic action”

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

Rob Salkowitz reviews DIRTY PICTURES by Brian Doherty in ICv2

“Dirty Pictures is likely to be the most complete and authoritative account we’re going to get, and is well worth a read.”

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.”

THE BURIED by Peter Hessler Wins First Annual Peter Mackenzie Smith Book Prize

Awarded for improving understanding of the history, economy, culture, arts, music, literature, religions, beliefs and practices of Egypt.

Jake Adelstein’s TOKYO VICE series launches on HBO Max

After a long and winding road, the adaptation of the bestselling memoir is here, directed by Michael Mann and scripted by JT Rogers.

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.”

MORE IS MORE IS MORE: Today’s Maximalist Interiors by Carl Dellatore (Rizzoli) to publish September 13, 2022

“You’ll be hard pressed to find more jubilance between two pieces of clothbound cardboard, or anywhere else for that matter.”

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.”