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Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i><\/p>\n Pan <\/a>(Fiction, Knut Hamsun, 1894) Retired officer leading a hermit\u2019s existence as a subsistence hunter falls into a love-hate relationship with the mercurial daughter of a well-off merchant. Haunting, enigmatic character study told from the distorted perspective of a protagonist who lacks awareness of himself and others. A generation ahead of his time in the use of modernist literary techniques, including the radical subjectivity seen here, Hamsun would be better remembered today if not for his later endeavors as a fervent Nazi quisling.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n Thieves of Book Row: New York\u2019s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It<\/a> (Nonfiction, Travis McDade, 2013) True crime and bibliophilia come together in an absorbing account of three overlapping theft gangs who pillaged the library shelves of the 1930s northeastern US, in an era when most such institutions left increasingly valuable first editions and rarities in the open stacks. A slim volume by Edgar Allan Poe stars as main McGuffin. Add a Necronomicon or two and you\u2019ve got your Big Apple sequel to Bookhounds of London<\/a>, complete with a police-accredited New York Public Library special investigator as a key player character.\u2014RDL<\/p>\nRecommended<\/h2>\n
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