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Midweek Miscellany

March 23, 2011

Pharmaceutical Sincerity — Michael Bourne on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 40 years on for The Millions: I can still remember sitting in the basement of my parents’ house in Northern California, practically whizzing myself with delight at that dizzying list of pharmaceuticals. I was fourteen and I’d read Catcher in the Rye and [...]

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Agents of Change

May 28, 2010

There’s a great op-ed by Stephen Page, chief executive of Faber & Faber, in today’s Guardian about the iPad and publishing: It’s clear that publishers must move faster to establish our compelling and useful role in the modern life of reading. While acquiring new expertise, we must assert the best of our traditional strengths; providing [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

February 2, 2010

A Wall in Palestine — more quiet mastery from Henry Sene Yee who excels in projects that require maximum discretion and minimal commentary. Like his cover design for Columbine,  A Wall in Palestine is notable for what it leaves out. An early contender for cover the year. You heard it here first. Making the World [...]

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Obligatory Apple/Amazon Post

February 1, 2010

It somehow seems terribly appropriate that I spent the week Apple unveiled the iPad battling with problems with my own PC laptop (*sigh*) and missed a lot of the excitement. Even at the best of times, I am usually at least a day behind the news cycle, and so not for the first time, I [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

January 26, 2010

The Backwards Novel Seen Backwards by Tom Gauld. I also love Tom’s Lost Fairy Tales for a promotional concertina booklet made by his agent Heart (surely there’s a full length book to be had here?). Ways of Reading from A Working Library: Every book alights a path to other books. Follow these paths as far [...]

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