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Why Shop Indie?
“No one should shop at Green Apple out of charity or pity or noblesse oblige, but because you want what we’ve got. You mold the retail landscape with every purchase; vote wisely.”
Mister K meets Mister M
Peter Mendelsund, one of the industry’s top designers (and, honestly, one of my favorites) explains the hideous choices he made when redesigning Kafka for Schocken. On the plus side, there’s the gorgeous typography by Julia Sysmäläine developed from Kafka’s own handwriting (!) and the brilliant Knopf/Arendt story for industry nerds. Enjoy.
Congratulations to Peter Cole
Gabriel Josipovici hailed Cole’s work as a “treasure trove, a labour of love and exceptional erudition, which will open up . . . a world of poetry and culture as rich as anything in human civilization”.
LARB’s massive first issue
The long-in-coming first issue of the Los Angeles Review of Books is now set to launch online in March and as shown by the website’s list of articles and reviews coming soon – it will be absolutely unbelievably massive. Dozens and dozens and dozens of reviews and interviews of all kinds are lined up.
The rewards of the poetic life
Poetry’s rewards may not come in this life . . .
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