What the Nose Knows - Avery Gilbert [133]
“[E]ach work of fiction” Bernard Benstock, “James Joyce: The olfactory factor,” in Joycean Occasions, edited by J. E. Dunleavy, M. J. Friedman, and M. P. Gillespie (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991), pp. 138–56.
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California” John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (New York: Viking, 1945); Travels with Charley: In Search of America (New York: Viking, 1962).
“In the days before Prohibition” H. L. Mencken, Happy Days 1880–1892 (New York: Knopf, 1940), p. 236.
“there is a thick, musty smell” Joseph Mitchell, McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (New York: Pantheon, 1992; reprint of 1943 edition), p. 19.
half of Americans “Brew a Pot? Latte Nation Thinks Not,” New York Post online edition, August 13, 2006.
manure-scented scratch-and-sniff “Ag Board’s Brochure Is a Real Stinker,” Patriot-News, June 17, 2005.
Back in 1931 Gove Hambidge, “Scents that make dollars; The next wave of fragrance?” World’s Work 60 (August 1931):32–34.
“I turned eight” Rem Koolhaas, “Singapore Songlines: Portrait of a Potemkin Metropolis…or Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa,” in R. Koolhaas and B. Mau, S, M, L, XL (New York: Monacelli Press, 1995).
“Now, the smell of the autumn smoke” Edgar Lee Masters, “Hare Drummer,” Spoon River Anthology, 1916.
“[W]e should be hanging on” Lewis Thomas, “On Smell,” in Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony (New York: Viking, 1983).
composition of prehistoric diets J. G. Moore, B. K. Krotoszynski, and H. J. O’Neill, “Fecal odorgrams: A method for partial reconstruction of ancient and modern diets,” Digestive Diseases and Science 29 (1984):907–911.
“Behind the office is a room” Steinbeck, Cannery Row, p. 22.
proved too unpleasant Author’s interview with Leti Bocanegra, August 30, 2006.
Scented museum exhibits “‘Smellovision’ Enhances Visit to Smithsonian,” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 1967; Martin Whitfield, “Museum Haunted by a Scent of Old Times,” The Independent (London), July 12, 1993; “Smells That Sell Not to Be Sniffed At; The T-Rex Model at London’s Natural History Museum,” CNN-Reuters, June 27, 2004; Matthew Tanner, “Satisfying the paying public: The effective interpretation of historic ships and boats,” Third International Conference on the Technical Aspects of the Preservation of Historic Vessels, San Francisco, April 20–23, 1997.
“aromatopia” Jim Drobnick, “Volatile Architectures,” in B. Miller and M. Ward eds., Crime and Ornament: The Arts and Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos (Toronto: YYZ Books, 2002).
atomizer historian Tirza True Latimer Tirza True Latimer, The Perfume Atomizer: An Object with Atmosphere (West Chester, PA: Schiffer, 1991), p. 7.
an exhibit honoring Gale W. Matson Gale W. Matson, “Microcapsules and process of making,” U.S. Patent 3,516,941, issued June 23, 1970; Jack Charbonneau and Keith Relyea, “The technology behind on-page fragrance sampling,” Drug & Cosmetic Industry, February 1997, p. 48.
15 scent of burnt cordite Ad in February 1989 issue of Armed Forces Journal International, opposite p. 57.
installation by Alex Sandover Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, New York, 2000.
Sissel Tolaas Sally McGrane, “The Odor Artist,” Wired, April 24, 2007; also “This Art Stinks, and That’s by Design,” KansasCity.com/The Kansas City Star, February 4, 2007.
“Lewis’s dialectical odours” Drobnick, “Volatile Architectures.”
“‘It smells a little like dirty socks’” “An Aroma Like…OK, OK, Plant Not Totally Foul, But No Bouquet,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 7, 1998.
“Smells are surer than sounds or sights” Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations (London: Methuen, 1903).
“I saw this Australian trooper” A. B. “Banjo” Paterson, Happy Dispatches (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1934).
three translucent globes AIR—Urban Olfactory Installation, in SAUMA: Design as Cultural Interface exhibit, World Financial Center, New York, June 20–September 10, 2006.
accompanied a New York Observer reporter Kate Kelly and Elizabeth Manus, “In a Smelly Summer, Our Team of Noses Sniffs up the City,” New York Observer, August