A working library is an exploration of—and advocate for—Recently
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1.6.11
Graphs, Maps, Trees
Franco Moretti
An academic treatise that argues that rather than reading books, we should be mining them for data. Somewhat frustratingly written (the vocabulary of literary theory…
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1.5.11
Clout
Colleen Jones
Colleen Jones clearly and (perhaps not surprisingly) persuasively explains how to create content that not only informs, but influences. She discusses what makes for influential…
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1.4.11
Encroachment
On A Reader on Reading
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1.3.11
A collaborative effort
On A Reader on Reading
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1.3.11
A Reader on Reading
Alberto Manguel
A series of essays from the author of A History of Reading that explores the reader’s perspective. The section called “Memoranda” approaches the politics…
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12.31.10
An astonishing quantity
On Manual of Typography
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12.24.10
Manual of Typography
Giambattista Bodoni, Stephan Füssel
A reproduction of Bodoni’s lifelong project to document as many typefaces as possible, complete with the dedication by his widow, and an essay from Stephan…
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12.8.10
Not in isolation
On A Pattern Language
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12.8.10
A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Sara Ishikawa
A collection of architectural patterns, fascinating for their grasp and depiction of the social experience of a town. But perhaps more compelling is the process…
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12.7.10
A privilege
On Common as Air and The Comedy of Survival
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12.6.10
Durable
On Common as Air and The printing press as an agent of change
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12.5.10
Labor and moral rights
On Common as Air
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11.29.10
I wrote you a short letter
Short is not a synonym for cheap.
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11.28.10
Common as Air
Lewis Hyde
Hyde addresses the history of copyright, and demonstrates that the founding fathers were not at all fans of it. Rather, they understood that a cultural…
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11.27.10
Firecracker
Mike Monteiro, Ryan Carver
Mike Monteiro’s words combine with Ryan Carver’s photographs to tell a story as lovely as it is mundane. The routines and anxieties of a breakup…
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11.16.10
The company of others
On the release of A Book Apart’s second title, CSS3 for Web Designers from the inimitable Dan Cederholm.
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11.16.10
CSS3 for Web Designers
Dan Cederholm
The second book from A Book Apart, and required reading for anyone who wants to make the web a more beautiful place. Dan not…
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10.18.10
Art Space Tokyo
Ashley Rawlings, Craig Mod
Lovingly illustrated and printed, this is your guide to all the hidden art galleries in Tokyo, complete with notes on where to eat and what…
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9.28.10
Cobwebs
On The Gift
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9.26.10
Art, defined
On The Gift and Days of Reading
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9.26.10
The Gift
Lewis Hyde
The original subtitle of this book defined it as “Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property,” which, in addition to being more lyrical, also hints…
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9.25.10
Empty
On Bird by Bird
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9.22.10
Writers and editors
On The Elements of Editing
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9.22.10
The Elements of Editing
Arthur Plotnik
References to “video display units” notwithstanding, many of Plotnik’s essays on editing remain as compelling today as they were thirty years ago. “The editor, not…
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9.20.10
Make a mess
On Bird by Bird
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9.19.10
Publication
On Bird by Bird
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9.19.10
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Personal musings on the life of the writer. Lamott is primarily a novelist, but I find her writing advice to be just as relevant to…
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8.16.10
Roots
On getting back to the words, and joining Typekit.
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8.16.10
On audience
More on the new publishing, and how A Book Apart is older than it seems.
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7.17.10
Television
On Cognitive Surplus
