What’s Black, White, and Red All Over? A Mercedes, A Blonde Prostitute, and an Unsolved Murder. The tale of this young woman, murdered in 1957, spawned one of t...
Sue Coe’s Graphic Resistance, an exhibition of prints, drawings and collages at MoMA PS1, presents decades worth of arresting visual dissidence at a time when c...
“God protects drunks, infants, and feisty girls, girls who are up for anything.” Cynthia Heimel, who died this year, riled the feminist movement in 1983 wi...
Erotica imprints such as Olympia Press gave many authors, including Fran Lebowitz, Diane di Prima and Roald Dahl early career boosts: writing pornography under ...
The Harry Houdini Séances: The world-famous magician was fixated on trying to contact his dead mother. After he died, his wife held annual séances to try to con...
Erika Blair is a writer and conceptual artist currently living in Brooklyn. She collects rare books, vintage smut, punk albums and 60s pop cultural and political ephemera. The similarity between her name and George Orwell’s (Eric Blair) is not a coincidence. erikablair.us