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Book-stravaganza! Stuff these in your Xmas stocking

Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol by Tony Scherman and David Dalton 509 pages $40 at amazon If you’re a Warhol afficionado, you will wolf down this 448 page entertaining, gossipy and fact-filled tome. The book is an in-depth retelling of Warhol’s life from birth to near-death gunshot wounds from Valerie Solanis in 1968, dwelling mostly on the pop art/Factory years before the Solanis incident. Post-gunshot Andy to his death in 1987 is dispatched in a short epilogue.  Clearly for these writers the Genius of Warhol was in flower in the 60s. The rest was just so much glitz and glitter. ... More » »