Archive for category: Books

So-called best gay books of all time    (2011.06.12)

Editing Benoît Denizet-Lewis’s list of the best gay books of all time (allegedly) so you can actually read it

This week’s design book: ‘Manning Up’    (2011.04.29)

Hymowitz’s Manning Up is a book about design wearing the drag of a book about men (really women)

Here are the two best articles on publishing of the Year of our Kindle MMXI    (2011.03.11)

Seth Godin, Happy Magic Fun Time, and Queer Cinema Classics doled out one at a time

You Are Not So Smart: le livre    (2011.02.22)

You Are Not So Smart gets a book deal

Stencil/spirit/laser/inkjet    (2011.02.17)

Just in Time, “[a] book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976”

My new PowerPoint technique is unstoppable    (2011.01.11)

There’s a whole chapter in A Visit from the Goon Squad created in PowerPoint. And it works

‘Dude’    (2011.01.05)

Michael Cunningham: “What kind of word is dude for a boy like Mizzy to be using?”

Claire Berlinski pulls rug out    (2010.12.24)

Claire Berlinski demolishes not only the sanctimony of the entire exercise of best-book-of-the-year lists but the undead premise of the entire publishing industry