Archive for category: Books

All the best parts of ‘Reality Hunger’    (2010.07.06)

The best parts of Reality Hunger are, paradoxically, the parts David Shields wrote himself

Who’s worse: Dundurn or John Lorinc?    (2010.06.09)

What’s worse: A publisher that fucks over authors or a journo who quotes an off-the-record source?

Who else thinks we’re soft?    (2010.06.08)

Call-centre operators, according to Erik Granered

‘Globish’ my ass    (2010.05.31)

Robert McCrum actually doesn’t talk about Canadian English in his new book Globish

Leyendecker’s lover    (2010.05.14)

American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker kept his lover Charles Beach a secret. What happened to Beach once Leyendecker died?

Why Bob Miller left HarperStudio    (2010.05.12)

Because, according to his own accounting, he failed on most of the “innovations” on which this publishing imprint was founded

Graphic design, mishmashed    (2010.03.18)

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)

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)

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