Archive for category: Book reviews
Book reviews
- This just in: Publishing still moribund (2021.06.20)
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Helen Andrews’ Boomers shows the futility of the publishing oligopoly, which takes most of your money and still lets you get obvious facts wrong. But the alternate option – self-publishing without expert help – is also doomed to failure
- Books of the year 2019 (2019.12.31)
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Including three that permanently reset my mindset (term used advisedly)
- Books of the year 2017 (2017.12.29)
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Billy Hayes’ Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me; Douglas Thomas’ Never Use Futura
- Vision first, texture second (2017.08.18)
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Eric Kandel brilliantly explains how we see first, then perceive texture second. This explains why I like a lot of things I like, but nobody’s really taking me up on that knowledge, are they, now
- Book of the year (2016.01.04)
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Here by Richard McGuire, which has radically recalibrated my sense of time. (Nº 2: Norwegian Wood)
- ‘The AIDS Generation’ (2014.01.24)
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The atrociously edited and sequenced book The AIDS Generation by Halkitis has a tiny saving grace in direct testimony from eldergays about their estrangement from gay culture
- ‘The Gentrification of the Mind’ (2012.09.10)
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When not inveighing against racist, elite white gay men, Sarah Schulman provides novel and useful analysis of “gentrification,” literature, gay men, AIDS, and more in The Gentrification of the Mind
- Hetïsm (2012.07.09)
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Nobody told me that the now-notorious Sheila Heti review in the New Yorker included a stunning photograph of the authoress
- ‘Design Is a Job’ (2012.04.12)
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A designer tells a client why his designs say what the client means. Young designers need Monteiro’s Design Is a Job to learn how to do that. Design Is a Job needed an editor