reading notes

by Richard Flanagan
ISBN: 9780330423557
At first, I thought I understood that this book was a very different sort of book than Gould’s Book of Fish, an earlier novel of Flanagan’s I read and thought was remarkable.
Then I remembered this quote from Fish:

“Once upon a time, terrible things happened, but it was long ago in a far-off [...]

by Chip Kidd
ISBN: 9780061673245
This is the second novel from graphic designer Chip Kidd, who is better known for his work on book covers than his writing.
If you read The Cheese Monkeys, you’ll recognize Happy, no longer an art student but a young man who lands his first job at the firm of his favorite yet [...]

by more than a dozen authors, including Shaun Tan
Gestalt Publishing (Australia)
ISBN: 9780977562831
This book is a collection of comic short stories, varying in length from single page/panels to nearly forty pages. The theme is dark/unsettling/creepy, and most of the stories deliver on that, in various shades of gray or simply stark black and white. There’s a [...]

Keith Arnatt, Photographs 1974-2002
by David Hurn & Clare Grafik
ISBN: 9781905712052
I found the idea of this book appealing, despite not generally having much patience for discussions (arguments?) about is it art? Maybe it was the title; maybe it was the all-caps fierceness of the handwritten note on the cover (“YOU BASTARD! YOU ATE THE LAST OF [...]