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Something for the Weekend

November 4, 2011

Project Thirty-Three, one of my favourite mid-century modern design blogs, is now using Blogger’s “Dynamic Views” template. It looks great using the new ‘Flipcard’ feature. The Crash — Alan Hollinghurst talks about writing and his new novel The Stranger’s Child with the New York Times: Mr. Hollinghurst said he modeled his work habits on another friend and [...]

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Something for the Weekend

October 14, 2011

The Dark Room — Filmmaker Grant Gee talks to BookForum about his new film Patience, which explores the work of author W.G. Sebald and his book Rings of Saturn: There is one reference in an essay he wrote about Kings of the Road by Wim Wenders. He opens the essay with an interesting recollection of watching the [...]

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Private Library

September 26, 2011

In this short film, New York architect Andrew Berman discusses a commission to design a beautiful writing studio in the woods in Long Island:

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Something for the Weekend

September 16, 2011

Not My Type — Paul Shaw really doesn’t like Just My Type by Simon Garfield: This is the second time I have tried to write a review of Just My Type. It is a frustrating book—warm and friendly on the surface but obnoxious underneath. The first time, I methodically tore it to pieces in my [...]

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Something for the Weekend

September 9, 2011

The Technological Sublime — Rick Poyner on the science fiction artist Chris Foss and Hardware, a new book collecting his work, at Design Observer: These visionary images have a stillness, a control of atmosphere and a mood of mystery and wonder, even when something huge, alien, imponderable and beyond our terrestrial grasp is taking place. Foss [...]

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