Everyone’s a critic of book covers
How the Globe’s nonexpert critiques two business-book covers
View ArticleHalf an endorsement of Misha Glouberman
A ringing endorsement of half of Half an endorsement of The Chairs Are Where the People Go by Glouberman (“with” Heti)
View Article‘Counterpunch’
Fred Smeijers’s Counterpunch is coming out in a new edition. It’s tough and it’s demanding, but also enjoyable and understandable
View ArticleSteve Jobs at Apple vs. Edwin Land at Polaroid
Edwin Land of Polaroid did almost everything Steve Jobs did – invented new technologies, built factories to manufacture them, imposed absolute secrecy, stirred audiences with spectacle, trained...
View Article‘Design Is a Job’
A designer tells a client why his designs say what the client means. Young designers need Monteiro’s Design Is a Job to learn how to do that. Design Is a Job needed an editor
View ArticleHetïsm
Nobody told me that the now-notorious Sheila Heti review in the New Yorker included a stunning photograph of the authoress
View Article‘The Gentrification of the Mind’
When not inveighing against racist, elite white gay men, Sarah Schulman provides novel and useful analysis of “gentrification,” literature, gay men, AIDS, and more in The Gentrification of the Mind
View Article‘The Coach House way of doing things’
What is “the Coach House way of doing things”? (I expect artisanal publishing to produce beautiful objects you will love to read)
View ArticleThis is how rich David Sedaris is
In Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, this is what David Sedaris talks about because this is how rich he is
View ArticleI told you this was how rich David Sedaris is
“[A]bout a month after Tiffany’s suicide, David was asked, ‘What if you could ask her one question?’ He replied, ‘Can I have the money back that I loaned you?’ He laughed.... ‘She said, “I will pay you...
View ArticleTwo editors you don’t want working on your nonfiction book
Natalie Horbechevsky and Brooke Carey. They’re the editrixen listed in the acknowledgements to Leander Kahney’s Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, a treasure trove of repetitiveness...
View Article‘The AIDS Generation’
The atrociously edited and sequenced book The AIDS Generation by Halkitis has a tiny saving grace in direct testimony from eldergays about their estrangement from gay culture
View ArticleFabrice Neaud
Fabrice Neaud: I gave up on him, but part of his œuvre is still an evocative and meaningful art project
View ArticleElon Green, literati’s cyberbully
The social-justice warrior’s cries of sexism do not justify worsening actual health or threatening human life
View Article‘Unlimited Embrace’
I did not know one could learn so much from literary criticism. Then I read Unlimited Embrace by Reed Woodhouse
View Article田亀源五郎
Gengoroh Tagame (and compère Anne Ishii) were terribly charming at Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2015
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