Archive for category: Books
- Graphic design, mishmashed (2010.03.18)
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Not only is Graphic Design, Referenced disorganized, it’s barely written in English sometimes. (But love the hand-sketched illos)
- ‘The horror vacui sensibility of the rich’ (2010.03.15)
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Gary Indiana: ‘The horror vacui sensibility of the rich is a form of voodoo against the inevitable’
- ‘How to Find an Agent for Your Nonfiction Book’ (sic) (2010.03.12)
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Some guy sold a book by querying an agent, and that guy’s friend treated it as news. And that sums up the future of publishing right there
- Agent: Undeliverable (2010.02.09)
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What happens when one tries every trick in the book to actually sign an agent’s contract
- Mr. Quentin Crisp predicts the present (2010.02.01)
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In How to Have a Life
<hyphen>Style, Mr. Crisp presaged phenomena that are now commonplace
- ‘[E]very book that is being published now depends on something that is in Twitter’ (2010.01.22)
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Mike Shatzkin is the latest to opine on the future of the book. And guess what: Everything that works for O’Reilly naturally will not work for you
- ‘The problem section’ (2010.01.12)
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A couple of things you can leave out: “The problem section” in magazine articles; historical digressions in books
- What’s your publisher done for you lately? (2010.01.12)
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According to a tendentious, borderline dishonest Jonathan Galassi, tons. And now they own your book, essentially