A fan of brevity I enjoyed this neat list on reading from A Working Library (a site that sports one of the finest designs I noted this year). Of the nine pieces of advice one that I’ve only recently taken to heart is this: If a book bores you, or tells you things you already know, […]
Stuart McMillen’s illustration expertly distills the concept of Neil Postman’s, ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ — A book about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
An impossible task? However, The LA Times takes sixty one novels and labels them as Post Modern after tagging them with a vague consensus of postmodern attributes: the author is a character, fiction and reality are blurred, the text includes fictional artifacts, such as letters, lyrics, even whole other books, and so on. 61 essential postmodern […]
My (current) favourite site and resource. Albeit perhaps overwhelming with the number of designs added. www.bookcoverarchive.com