About A Bird
Each book is a world unto itself — a sort-of art object, with its formatting, color, and typography lovingly chosen by the author. The entire floor space of the shop speaks to the idea that the beauty...
View ArticleAn Unfamiliar Place
Kathryn Desforges doesn’t remember much about March 2, 2010. It was a Tuesday. She got up around nine. The weather was bright, the house was silent. But when her boyfriend came back for lunch she had...
View ArticleThe Pleasure of the Text
Is Drag City, an influential record label, ready to make its mark on publishing? And will Jay Ruttenburg's The Lowbrow Reader Reader be the book to make the mark? Read On »
View ArticleCyrano’s Gaffe: The Book-That-is-More-Than-a-Book
Who was the first person to pick up a book, dust its cover, thumb its pages, and think “you know, this really should be more than a book — there should be some, I dunno, music or something to go with...
View ArticleWhat Virginia Woolf Knew About Making Books
While Woolf's regard for the reader might be inspiring to any writer, her commitment to making books that stand as beautiful objects is instructive to independent author-publishers in particular. Read...
View ArticleModicum
"Modicum" is a best-of selection of bursts of whimsy from the Austin-native’s prolific output throughout the 2000s. Read On »
View ArticleMr. Grieves
An animal or plant — or maybe even an ovum — talks. Sometimes to itself, but more often to another of its kind. The idea is simple, but the execution is smart and almost always funny in Scott...
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