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An Occasional Hobo

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In 1900, Josiah Flynt Willard, writer, amateur ­sociologist, and sometime hobo, published Notes of an Itinerant Policeman. In the book, he describes the often-unsavory world ...

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Jan 1 2010
On November 4, 1908, Kunio Yana­gita, a thirty-three-year-old government bureaucrat and self-taught anthropologist, met Ki­zen Sasaki, an aspiring writer from the tiny village ...

Divine Justice of the Weirdo Gods

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Aug 1 2007
Fletcher Hanks, nicknamed “Christy” after Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson, was, by all accounts, a louse. An alcoholic and a wife-beater, Hanks once kicked his ...

Enormous, Fleshy Pinatas

Robert Ito
Jan 1 2006
Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan’s most famous and prolific photographer, has published some three hundred books over a forty-year career. In Araki: Self, Life, Death, a retrospective ...

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