The Sound and the Fury, hold the fury
In an essay in this week’s New Yorker titled “Easy Writers,” Arthur Krystal traces the history of guilty reading pleasures and finds the modernist novel responsible for drawing a hard… 1 / Read more »
What we talk about when we talk about book covers
If the saying is true and everyone is a critic these days, then it should come as no surprise that tucked between the endless volumes of criticism about books appearing… Read more »
Richard Prince makes another goddam phony
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is why, on a warm fall day last year, James Frey was standing in… 1 / Read more »
Bookshelves more creative than yours
If you’re anything like me (a frightening proposition for you, I’m afraid), you probably have a great number of books in your home, and you’ve probably taken great care to… Read more »
VIDEO: A book is born
Here at Melville House, we’re no strangers to the particular pleasures of digital publishing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy a bit of printmaking pornography now and then.… Read more »
Henry David Thoreau, global warming activist
Considering that we skipped right over winter this year in New York, everyone seems to be talking about climate change lately: “Can you believe this weather? Thanks, global warming!” But… Read more »
Notes on design: “It’s ok not to reinvent the wheel.”
On the occasion of the UK publication of Spitalfields Life, a collection of sketches about life in London’s East End, the writer behind the book, known only as “The Gentle… Read more »
The Banksy of public poetry
On days when the unending visual onslaught of urban life begins to feel overwhelming, some of us (we are probably all artists or designers) bemoan the state of our culture… Read more »
VIDEO: Pop-up books go 3-D, as if they weren’t before
It appears books have reached yet another milestone in the relentless forward march of unnecessary but still kinda cool progress. Digital Buzz Blog shares the above video demonstrating a new “augmented… Read more »
MAKING THE COVER: The Pepe Carvalho series