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Something for the Weekend

January 13, 2012

Fabulous Fury – Evie Nagy reviews Tarpé Mills & Miss Fury: Sensational Sundays 1944–1949 for The LA Review of Books: Though Mills ostensibly hid her gender and wrote a high-adventure comic rife with guy stuff like smuggling, espionage, mad science, and gruesome murders, Miss Fury has much in it that seems designed to appeal to women as well. For one thing, [...]

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Erik Spiekermann: Typography in the Digital Domain

November 18, 2011

In this 10-minute film by Johnny Daukes for Microsoft UK, typographer Erik Spiekermann talks type with Elliot Jay Stocks, founder of 8 Faces magazine: (via I Love Typography)

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Something for the Weekend

November 18, 2011

Terror! – Amis on Don DeLillo and his new book The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories in The New Yorker: DeLillo is the laureate of terror, of modern or postmodern terror, and the way it hovers and shimmers in our subliminal minds. As Eric Hobsbawm has said, terrorism is a new kind of urban pollution, and the pollutant [...]

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The Title Design of Saul Bass (A Brief Visual History)

November 14, 2011

I’ve been waiting for a book about Saul Bass since I was bookseller. Now Saul Bass: A Life In Film & Design is finally in bookstores, Ian Albinson of the brilliant Art of the Title has put together a brief visual history of some of Bass’s most celebrated work: (For the record: Saul Bass: A Life [...]

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Something for the Weekend

November 11, 2011

Read This – Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise and Listen To This, on books about music at FiveBooks: There’s a long list of bad examples of vague and gushy writing about music in literature, but there’s also a string of distinguished examples. I wrote a piece for The New Yorker a couple of years [...]

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