A working library is an exploration of—and advocate for—Recently
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4.6.11
A museum
On Glut
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4.6.11
Glut
Alex Wright
Alex Wright shows the many ways we have endeavored to manage an abundance of information, beginning with libraries and encyclopedias, running through taxonomies and folksonomies,…
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4.4.11
On the news
How we read is breaking ranks with how the news is made.
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3.15.11
A web designed for reading
My thoughts on the new Readability.
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3.8.11
Three
On building a publishing house, and loving great content.
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3.8.11
The Elements of Content Strategy
Erin Kissane
The third title from A Book Apart, and the one closest to my heart. Kissane explores the roots of content strategy, as well as the…
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3.7.11
How to Write a Sentence
Stanley Fish
Fish argues that the building blocks of writing are sentences, and that if you want to write a good one, you first have to learn…
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3.1.11
Shy animals
On A Week at the Airport
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3.1.11
A Week at the Airport
Alain de Botton
A slim document observing the place most of us strive to avoid. The perfect lazy travel book.
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2.14.11
“Readers are fickle”
On U&lc
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2.12.11
U&lc
John D. Berry
U&lc was a magazine of experimental typography, founded by Herb Lubalin in 1973, and published through 1999. John D. Berry’s tome includes reproductions of many…
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2.7.11
A buffer
On The Courage to Create
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2.1.11
The ravages of space
On Time and the Art of Living
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1.31.11
The Solid Form of Language
Robert Bringhurst
Bringhurst’s short essay meanders through the history of scripts and their varied forms, touching on the origins of their physical shapes as well as the…
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1.29.11
Forgotten
On Time and the Art of Living and How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
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1.25.11
Modes of writing
Of blogs and books.
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1.24.11
On editors
On A Reader on Reading
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1.19.11
Disrespect for the future
On Time and the Art of Living
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1.19.11
Time and the Art of Living
Robert Grudin
Short, almost journal-like essays on our relationship to (and against) time. In the aggregate, Grudin describes a means of living purposefully, experiencing what time we…
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1.17.11
Forever
On the length of forever, and our role as caretakers.
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1.14.11
School for anarchists
On A Reader on Reading
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1.12.11
Rhythm
On The Big Short
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1.12.11
Making Ideas Happen
Scott Belsky
Reductively, this is GTD for the Photoshop set. But Belsky, like others working in this space, defines creativity expansively, as something that people of…
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1.11.11
An honest fiction
On A Reader on Reading and Don Quixote
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1.11.11
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Almost certainly the greatest novel ever written, and an early precursor to postmodernism. Some ten years separated publication of the first and second volumes, during…
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1.6.11
Generations
On Graphs, Maps, Trees
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1.6.11
Graphs, Maps, Trees
Franco Moretti
An academic treatise that argues that rather than reading books, we should be mining them for data. Somewhat frustratingly written (the vocabulary of literary theory…
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1.5.11
Clout
Colleen Jones
Colleen Jones clearly and (perhaps not surprisingly) persuasively explains how to create content that not only informs, but influences. She discusses what makes for influential…
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1.4.11
Encroachment
On A Reader on Reading
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1.3.11
A collaborative effort
On A Reader on Reading
