Jane Austen Tarot Cards, For a Woman In Want of a Card Deck

By Michelle Dean on Aug 27, 2013  Flavorwire

We don’t usually associate Jane Austen with the occult; dark-and-stormy stuff is more the Brontës’ bag. But continuing with this week’s theme of literary tarot cards (we posted Lord of the Rings ones yesterday), it seems some enterprising tarot mogul has gone and designed us some Jane Austen tarot cards. The images are occasionally only dubiously related to the term they represent, but who cares: the point of tarot is to interpret, people. Use your imaginations. … Read More

9 Images From ‘Playboy’s’ Golden Age

By Jason Diamond on Aug 27, 2013 

What’s your take on Hugh Hefner and the Playboy empire he created in 1953? Misogynist? Genius? Visionary with smarts enough to align himself with everybody from Marilyn Monroe (first Playmate of the Month) to Shel Silverstein? 
One of the greatest marketing minds of the modern era; prophet of the Sexual Revolution; smut peddler; last of the Romantics; total dilettante; or maybe a combination of all of those things? … Read More