On July 3rd, 2013, SALT AND CEDAR…
…Detroit letterpress folks Leander and Leon Johnson set up their bookbinding workshop table on the Mildred’s Lane deck this morning.
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On August 13th, 2012, THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT SMITHSON…
…the beautifully designed book edited by Nancy Holt and published six years after his death in 1979 by New York University Press (kindly presented to me last night…
On July 29th, 2012, JOHN BALDESSARI AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST…
…packed the LACMA Art Catalogues space and lobby with crowds to hear an engaging interview event marking his new artist book.
On July 24th, 2012, ‘WHERE THE HEART BEATS: JOHN CAGE, ZEN BUDDHISM, AND THE INNER LIFE OF ARTISTS’…
…is the new book about John Cage which I ordered while I was still reading about it in the New York Times a few days ago – and…
On May 24th, 2012, ‘FOUNDING GARDENERS’…
…is the title of the 2011 book by Andrea Wulf I am just finishing, engrossed in the stories of gardening maniacs Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, and how…
On May 23rd, 2012, ‘THE FOREST AND THE PEOPLE:…
…The Story of the Angeles National Forest‘ is the title of this charming 48-page booklet by W.W. Robinson and illustrated by Irene Robinson, published by the Title Insurance…
On May 13th, 2012, BOOKS BY CARLOS MOTTA…
…Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (2011) and We Who Feel Differently (2012) – by artist-activist friend, and contemporary queer culture instigator, raconteur, organizer, and editor –…
On April 30th, 2012, PIECING TOGETHER LOS ANGELES: AN ESTHER MCCOY READER…
…is the book by Susan Morgan that finally takes on the legacy of this influential woman – often overlooked in the supposedly manly era of testosterone fueled modern…
On February 9th, 2012, DETROIT’S SIGNAL-RETURN PRESS…
…established in 2010 by recent Portland Maine transplant friends whom I first met at Mildred’s Lane just before their momentous move west – is one of the more…
On January 5th, 2012, ‘THE ROARING SILENCE’…
…is the 1993 John Cage biography by David Revill I picked up at the Strand last week which is now getting a prominent bedside perch as I dive in.
On December 11th, 2011, ‘HOME WORK: HANDBUILT SHELTER’…
…the super charming 2004 survey of hand made homes (adobe, bark, barns, bottles, camps, canvas, floating, geodesics, green-roofs, mobile, mud, sandbags, straw, stone, tiles, timber, tiny, tipis, thatch, treetops, yurts…) from all over – including…
On October 20th, 2011, ‘AVIAN ARCHITECTURE’…
…is the awesome new book – I just borrowed from my brother for some inspiring travel reading – by Peter Goodfellow from Princeton University Press all about the…
On October 19th, 2011, ‘THE JOYFUL COMMUNITY’…
…the 1971 book by Benjamin Zablocki that just arrived in the mail (along with a pile of others – which will provide perfect plane reading on lots and lots…
On September 30th, 2011, RENO FOOD AND BOOK DISCOVERIES…
…came just as I was beginning to think that this town was all casinos and slot machines, just before my talk at the Nevada Museum of Art for the…
On August 21st, 2011, ARTAZART DESIGN BOOKSTORE…
…on Canal St. Martin in my new favorite Paris neighborhood of Bellevue is a welcome find this afternoon – again biking my way to all corners of town…
On August 11th, 2011, LITTLE FREE LIBRARY…
…is the name of this diminutive wood structure on a post which I happened upon this afternoon gracing the front yard of the cutest house on our St.…
On August 4th, 2011, ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE…
…the influential 2007 familial account of eating products grown close to home for a year by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, is one of…
On July 18th, 2011, ‘ROMA MANGIA ROMA’ INTERVIEWS #18-21…
…took us to a family of three generations living in a newish housing development about 8 km south of central Rome – still within the Grande Raccordo Anulare,…
On June 26th, 2011, ‘A PATTERN LANGUAGE’…
…the iconic influential book by Christopher Alexander is standard issue to architecture students since it emerged out of the Berkeley in the 1970’s, which we were introduced to…
On June 22nd, 2011, IL VASCHELLO…
…is the friendly, local, slightly hidden, Monteverde trattoria – just outside of the Aurelian wall from us – presided over since the early 80’s by gregarious hostess Dorina…