Archive for category: The print medium

2012 year in reading    (2012.12.30)

My year in reading, 2012

Precious, bankable Craig Mod    (2012.12.14)

Flowery, grandiloquent Craig Mod and developer-autistic Marco Arment are being disingenuous when they claim not to have defined a new publishing style. They have – and, after the manner of Butt and FANTASTIC MAN, it will now be copied

Oral history of ‘Frank’    (2012.09.30)

Who’s up for writing an oral history of Frank?

‘The Gentrification of the Mind’    (2012.09.10)

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)

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)

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

Reading the final issue of ‘Butt’    (2012.02.15)

Ideally, I show, with dog in lap

The smartest young man in publishing    (2011.12.13)

Mr. JAMES BRIDLE approaches Ben Hammersley levels of erudition

‘The untold story of Kobo’    (2011.11.25)

Dan Morel has it wrong: Kobo’s business is selling defective merchandise