reading notes

by Mary Oliver
ISBN: 0871130696
I can’t remember the last time I read an entire book of poetry. I know it’s been a very long time, but something about how “Wild Geese” struck me when I read it in a blog post compelled me to find and read more of Oliver’s work.
Wild Geese
You do not have to [...]

by Seth
ISBN: 189659770X
The production quality of this paperback book is high: it has a solid binding, cover flaps, and the blue and black printing looks wonderful on the off-white (sepia, really) pages. But then, Seth didn’t just create this graphic novel, he designed the book, too.
The storyline first appeared in in his Palookaville comic series, [...]

Essays on making things and making meaning
by Susan Neville
ISBN: 1878448080
This collection of essays turned out to be more on the philosophical side of making meaning than on the documentary side of making things. There isn’t anything wrong with that, it just wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
Neville’s focus is Indiana, and how the manufactured/manufacturing landscape [...]

A Guide to a New Way of Working
by Anne Truitt Zelenka with Judi Sohn
ISBN: 9780470223987
I tend to be suspicious of books on web topics. The internet moves much faster than book publishing, so I worry that web books will seem stale when I read them. I think Zelenka’s book will have staying power beyond [...]

by Jason Fulford
ISBN: 0977648117
I was quite taken with Crushed, so knew I’d get Fulford’s next photography book. Then I saw the title (and cover — something straight out of a school library) and was charmed. I get a fair amount of new or new to me books. Of course I buy them because I think [...]

edited by Zadie Smith
ISBN: 9780143038184
Think of a movie theater getting crowded, or subway nearing rush hour and the problem of choosing a seat: there are some folks you’d rather sit near than others. The open seat next to you is a risk, you don’t know who might end up there or if you’d be better [...]