Archive for category: Books

BookCamp    (2009.06.07)

BookCampTO09: Why do I bother?

What can Cory Doctorow get away with?    (2009.04.02)

Apparently I would “need publication credits and degrees” to “get away with” writing about a topic

Dumbest literary agency in New York blows its cover    (2009.03.23)

“Attachment? What’s an attachment?” the Robbins Office essentially asks

‘Save the Males’    (2009.02.24)

Not quite “Who wants crème brûlée?” but getting there. (Also: How to boss around a group of Cub Scouts.)

‘Detail in Typography’    (2009.02.24)

Pronounce this name (HOLDS UP SIGN READING “JOST HOCHULI”)

‘The Solitary Vice’    (2009.02.09)

Don’t read books if you don’t want to, Mikita Brottman does not quite argue. Now, what does this have to do with designers?

People are books too!    (2009.02.06)

Bobby Bringhurst: “[B]ooks are invisible.” No, they are not

Faggiest book of the year    (2008.11.25)

The Perfect Scent by the obviously gay Chandler Burr (no relation)

‘While You’re Reading’    (2008.10.13)

The rather disappointing While You’re Reading by Gerard Unger