A working library is an exploration of—and advocate for—Recently
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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
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1.3.11
A Reader on Reading
Alberto Manguel
A series of essays from the author of A History of Reading that explores the reader’s perspective. The section called “Memoranda” approaches the politics…
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12.31.10
An astonishing quantity
On Manual of Typography
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12.24.10
Manual of Typography
Giambattista Bodoni, Stephan Füssel
A reproduction of Bodoni’s lifelong project to document as many typefaces as possible, complete with the dedication by his widow, and an essay from Stephan…
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12.8.10
Not in isolation
On A Pattern Language
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12.8.10
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Sara Ishikawa
A collection of architectural patterns, fascinating for their grasp and depiction of the social experience of a town. But perhaps more compelling is the process…
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12.7.10
A privilege
On Common as Air and The Comedy of Survival
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12.6.10
Durable
On Common as Air and The printing press as an agent of change
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12.5.10
Labor and moral rights
On Common as Air
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11.29.10
I wrote you a short letter
Short is not a synonym for cheap.
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11.28.10
Common as Air
Lewis Hyde
Hyde addresses the history of copyright, and demonstrates that the founding fathers were not at all fans of it. Rather, they understood that a cultural…
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11.27.10
Firecracker
Mike Monteiro, Ryan Carver
Mike Monteiro’s words combine with Ryan Carver’s photographs to tell a story as lovely as it is mundane. The routines and anxieties of a breakup…
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11.16.10
The company of others
On the release of A Book Apart’s second title, CSS3 for Web Designers from the inimitable Dan Cederholm.
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11.16.10
CSS3 for Web Designers
Dan Cederholm
The second book from A Book Apart, and required reading for anyone who wants to make the web a more beautiful place. Dan not…
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10.18.10
Art Space Tokyo
Ashley Rawlings, Craig Mod
Lovingly illustrated and printed, this is your guide to all the hidden art galleries in Tokyo, complete with notes on where to eat and what…
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9.28.10
Cobwebs
On The Gift
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9.26.10
Art, defined
On The Gift and Days of Reading
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9.26.10
The Gift
Lewis Hyde
The original subtitle of this book defined it as “Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property,” which, in addition to being more lyrical, also hints…
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9.25.10
Empty
On Bird by Bird
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9.22.10
Writers and editors
On The Elements of Editing
