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Top 10 Wholesome Creators Who Were Anything But In this chaotic world, one can always seek comfort in the warmth of whimsy. Innocent icons are fondly looked upon as one of the few things incorruptible. The problem is that these works are made by people. People are rarely incorruptible. The following 10 people show how artists in fields as charming as poetry or as playful as toys have hid behind their public reputation to be less than scrupulous. 10 Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Anders...

A Blazing Suburban Gothic Imagines the American West on the Brink In the 1970s, Mimi Plumb began photographing adolescent life and the bleached-out landscapes of California. Her suspenseful new book foretells the disasters of the present—and the future. Mimi Plumb, The first time I moved to California was in late summer 1998, when I was young and romantic enough to refer to the place by its nickname, “the Golden State,” and to believe that this was what people there called it. (They didn...

True West Magazine The late author-screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook, editor Stuart Rosebrook, Paul Andrew Hutton and True West’s Bob Boze Bell share a grand moment at the joint Arizona-New Mexico History Convention in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 2017, where Stuart had just moderated a panel discussion by Hutton and Bell on one of their research subjects, Mickey Free. – Photo by Dorothy Rosebrook, Courtesy Paul Andrew Hutton – Do you remember the first time you read Paul Andrew Hutton? He immediately...