culture & literature — #
In celebration of the life and work of Maurice Sendak, behold Stephen Colbert’s interview with the man
8 May 2012
15 February 2012
technology & literature — #
Ken Segal’s upcoming book on Apple, Insanely Simple, promises to do what Walter Isaacson’s could not: explain Apple’s insatiable quest for simplicity.
28 November 2011
design & literature — #
These upcoming book cover designs by Peter Mendelsund for some of Franz Kafka’s works are fantastic / via Jason Santa Maria
13 September 2011
literature & culture — #
Anthony Bourdain Gets His Own Line of Books
I will say that I’m a guy who loves books—on a variety of subjects—and that I relish the opportunity to help other authors be heard. And that this is NOT some cynical bullshit list we’re talking about. This will be a very interesting group of authors whose works deserve attention. Also, Dan Halpern—as anyone lucky enough to know or work with him knows—is awesome. I proudly bask in his reflected glory.
4 September 2011
design & literature — #
These new Oliver Sacks book jacket designs are awesome / via Jason Santa Maria
24 July 2011
literature & business — #
On Books, Borders, and the fact that people are reading more not less
13 July 2011
film & literature — #
The trailer for the new Tintin movie, The Secret Of The Unicorn is out and it looks great.
1 February 2011
design & literature — #
Designers & Books is “devoted to publishing lists of books that esteemed members of the design community identify as personally important, meaningful, and formative—books that have shaped their values, their worldview, and their ideas about design.”
12 December 2010
literature & culture — #
When I look back at the plight of American research libraries in 2010, I feel inclined to break into a jeremiad. In fact, I want to deliver three jeremiads, because research libraries are facing crises on three fronts; but instead of prophesying doom, I hope to arrive at a happy ending.
26 November 2010
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Dave Eggers: From ‘staggering genius’ to America’s conscience
29 September 2010
literature & culture — #
The New Yorker: David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass Infinite Jest
Wallace worried that he had been driven by a “basically vapid urge to be avant-garde . . . and linguistically calisthenic.”