Here’s a very brief synopsis of this book, certainly one of the more obscure I’ve come across lately: “Set in the German Democratic Republic of the early 1970s, The Life…
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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…
This book sounds delightfully bonkers, fairly abstruse, and difficult to review. From reading other reviews, I get the sense immediately that this book provokes strong opinions, and perhaps a good…
A sort-of novel, sort-of autobiographical exploration, at once exploration of the writing process and excavation of persistent imagined images, from an author “regarded by many as Australia’s most innovative writer…
“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…
A fairly short book (fewer than 150 pages) that’s apparently a classic, at least of the cult variety, about workmanship, skill, craft, and design. Pye “…proposes a new theory of…
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….
A very big book, filled with incredible detail. An in-depth look at the practice of watchmaking. A classic — “one of the definitive texts on horology”. It’s filled with lots…
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…
No Time to Spare is a collection of Le Guin’s blog posts, which cover a range of topics: aging, her cat, the “lit biz”, and what seems to be a…