King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking
King Arthur Flour
A wonderfully written primer on cooking with whole grains, with excellent recipes as well as guidance on equipment and techniques.
A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel
Manguel’s lifelong dedication to reading plays itself out in a work that follows reading from clay tablets to present day.
On feeding
As I write this, I am baking bread. Or, at least, I am trying to bake bread.
On advertising
Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the reading experience on the web is dependent upon an advertising economy.
In defense of readers
From issue 278 of A List Apart.
On reading with a theme
How to read voraciously, without slipping through the looking glass.
By any other name
A meditation on how the name of a text prefigures its form.
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Short, surreal little tales that experiment with the form of the story and often take the library as their subject.
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp
Tharp’s treatise on creativity applies as well to writing or design as it does to dance.
On memory
To remember is to forget.
By design
By design, a text makes a statement as to how it should be read—or if it should be read at all.
Designing Design
Kenya Hara
Skipping stones
On While You’re Reading
While You’re Reading
Gerard Unger
Directed at the layman instead of the serious typographer, Unger’s book is a breezy overview of the science of reading.
Omnivore’s Dilemma
Michael Pollan
Worth the hype, not because of the widely-hailed subject matter but because of the extraordinary writing.
Against the Grain
Richard Manning
A revisionist history that argues that we traded away much of our humanity in exchange for the little bit of security that agriculture promised.
Unreadable?
A response to Joe Clark’s article in Scroll Magazine on reading long on the web.
Reading as shared experience
Can the conversation around a book replace the act of reading it?
Writing versus reading
On How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Pierre Bayard
The title belies the real subject, which is an argument against reading and for writing. The book that convinced me to launch this site.