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Penguin's "Great Ideas" Covers

eÆsthete wrote 3 days ago: Flickr has compiled a set of the cover designs for the third installment of Penguin’s “ … more »

Tags: New & Notable, Books, best, Penguins, Covers

Urban Poet

eÆsthete wrote 5 days ago: Death is often a good career move in poetry. No sooner are the obsequies over and the baked meats e … more »

Tags: Books, Poetry, frankohara

Bob Colacello's Out-Takes

eÆsthete wrote 5 days ago: As the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in the 1970s and early 80s, Bob Colacello was a … more »

Tags: Culture, Retro, Photography, Interview, Exhibit, BobColacello, andywarhol, studio54, Celebrities

Sagmeister on Sagmeister

eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: Brilliant, engaging, but modest it’s not: Rick Poynor on Stefan Sagmeister’s Things I Have L … more »

Tags: New & Notable, Art, stefansagmeister, book, thingsIhavelearnedinmylife

Cooking: Sous Vide

eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: Most serious cooks and well-connected dilettantes have heard of sous vide cooking, but few have seen … more »

Tags: book, cooking, pressurecooking, sousvide

The Lazarus Project1 comment

eÆsthete wrote 1 week ago: The website for Aleksandar Hemon’s new novel The Lazarus Project/&tag=theerrantae0c-20, is … more »

Tags: Retro, Website, book, aleksandarhemon, lazarusproject

Born Backwards

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: Special thanks to Kottke for embellishing a post when it so enriches the original as this one does o … more »

Tags: the examined life, andrewseangreer, confessions of maxtivoli, curiousccaseofbenjaminbutton

Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock, reviewed here.[via link]   … more »

Tags: Architecture, book, Review, AlfredHitchcock, stevenjacobs

The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

eÆsthete wrote 2 weeks ago: Jason Kottke on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a strangely contemporary example of book design from … more »

Tags: printing, book, printing.press, moveabletype, Guttenberg

Inside Phone Sex

eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: So much of commerce these days is blind: online shopping, tech-support in Bangalore. We hope there i … more »

Tags: New & Notable, sex, book, phone, PhillipToledano

Conversations You Have at Twenty

eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: Maud Newton’s extraordinary essay, “Conversations You Have at Twenty,” can now be … more »

Tags: New & Notable, Competition, Essay, maudnewton

Summer Reads: True Confessions

eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: What could be tantalizing than a few true confessions to while the hours away. Salon’s staff i … more »

Tags: Books, summer, trueconfessions

Summerscapes

eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: Jessica Helfand appears in a recent New York Times Op-Ed section with a remembrance of one Californi … more »

Tags: Notably Nostalgic, Retro, book, JessicaHelfund, Scrapbook

How We Drive

eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: How we Drive is a new blog by contributing writer Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive th … more »

Tags: Banally Useful, New & Notable, book, Driving, Tests, TomVanderbilt

The Big Squeeze

eÆsthete wrote 3 weeks ago: You may be surprised to learn that the pleasant person from FedEx Ground delivering your package ow … more »

Tags: New & Notable, Economics, book, workers, overseasjobs

The Purple Anthology

eÆsthete wrote 4 weeks ago: Art and fashion are usually filed away in decades not centuries, so it’s not often you hear someon … more »

Tags: New & Notable, Books, Fashion, Photography, essays, EleinFleiss, OlivierZahm

Profitable Reading

eÆsthete wrote 4 weeks ago: Do you know where your money is? Ten books on investing recommended by the seer himself, Warren Buff … more »

Tags: Banally Useful, Books, Investing, Advice, warren+buffet

Introducing the "Wovel"

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: Underland Press is publishing a “wovel” — a web-novel — in which the author … more »

Tags: New & Notable, book, wovel, webnovel, Installments, TheLiving, brianevenson, Novel

The Pornography of Power

eÆsthete wrote 1 month ago: “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman sat down with Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer on Friday to discu … more »

Tags: Poseurs & Pretentions, Political theatre, New & Notable, npr, book, pornographyofpower, RobertScheer, 9/11, amygoodman


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