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Midweek Miscellany

May 9, 2012

Lyra Kilston reviews Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design for the LA Review of Books. The Well-Made Book — An interesting article by Michael Agresta on how printed books, and their design, are changing in the digital age: Now, as we move into the digital age, the well-made copy has come to occupy [...]

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Something for the Weekend

May 4, 2012

Cover illustration by Adrian Tomine for the Japanese edition of Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, published by Shinchosha Publishing. The Darkness — Norwegian cartoonist Jason profiled in The National Post: “A comedy that has some darkness, like The Apartment, is more appealing than if it’s just fluff. Ingmar Bergman’s best film, to me, is Fanny [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

May 2, 2012

This Precarious Balancing Act — Maud Newton talks to Alison Bechdel, author of (the astonishingly good) Fun Home, about her new graphic novel Are You My Mother?. Fascinating stuff: I feel like cartooning for me has been like a way to be a crypto-writer. I couldn’t ever say I wanted to be a writer because my mother [...]

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Something for the Weekend

April 27, 2012

Sturm und Drang – Author Nick Harkaway (Angelmaker and the forthcoming The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World) on Amazon and the publishing industry for The Guardian: The most thunderous argument in Amazon’s favour is that the market has spoken, and demands cheaper product. This one I find utterly bizarre. We know very well, in this post-crash age, [...]

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