The Casual Optimist

Books, Design & Culture

April 27, 2012
by Dan
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Something for the Weekend

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 … Continue reading

January 25, 2011
by Dan
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Midweek Miscellany

A shiny new (and somewhat unsettling) cover for Joyland’s next e-book, How I Came to Haunt My Parents by Natalee Caple, designed by the shiny (and somewhat unsettling) David A Gee. Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War — Vanity Fair excerpts J. … Continue reading

June 30, 2010
by Dan
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Midweek Miscellany

Edward Gorey book cover set on Flickr (via This Isn’t Happiness). 15% of Immortality — Literary agent Andrew Wylie profiled in Harvard Magazine: “The music industry did itself in by taking its profitability and allocating it to device holders. Manufacturing … Continue reading