I love this book’s premise: weaving together an amalgamation of example sentences, from twelve different dictionaries, into short narratives. Literary bricolage, with clear echoes of Oulipean experimentation. It’s a fascinating…
“Craeft” is an exploration of traditional crafts, a series of essays and histories, a mix of scientific, academic, and personal. An early chapter is about defining “craeft”, an old Anglo-Saxon…
I really enjoyed Priscilla Long’s “Minding the Muse” — a slim yet potent handbook for creators, full of both insights and practical strategies on various parts of the creative process….
I skimmed a couple chapters of this for a reading group a while back, and got my dad a copy, but haven’t read much of it yet. It’s a collection…
This book is fascinating: a translation, but not quite — more like a total reinterpretation. This is “a personal and poetic meditation”, filtering the original text through Le Guin’s unique,…
Structure of the Visual Book was written “to elaborate on the potential of the book format, whether text, images, or a combination…” My copy is the third edition of this…
I believe this is one of the most famous artist’s books of all time. I first heard about it in school but it was expensive and out of print at…
This one’s been on our shelves for a while; for years all I’ve known about it is that it’s some sort of classic, about the life of a cat, and…
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle is an “excursion into the ways we conceptualize the past…” Its subject is the “discovery of ‘deep time’” via three documents “marking the transitions in our…
A small, salient book about hope. Solnit is an excellent writer, critic, essayist, commentator. She here argues that an “embrace of uncertainty” is more useful than “either passive optimism or…