NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC
Erin Thurlow Artist Erin Thurlow often starts with a found object. In this case, an issue of National Geographic magazine. Through a process of cutting and erasure with a series of ready-made geometric designs, he reveals the latent forms and hidden agendas in supposedly neutral content. What is left visible is simultaneously important and extraneous. This beautiful artist book reveals how books in general are both objects and experiences. |
We're Getting On
James Kaelan At a bar in Sacramento, a group of disaffected kids watch Saddam Hussein's trial on T.V. every night and compete with each other over who loves the tyrannical Middle East strongman most. So when Dan, the charismatic-and-perhaps-despotic frontman of a popular local band compels four acolytes to follow him into the desert "to get to the bottom of this whole human condition," they're powerless to resist. |
The Cardio Tesseract
Knox & Robinson In this intimate and playful collaboration, Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson write alternating love poems in conversation with each other, revealing the dynamics of their private life, their hopes, fears, and dark places, from thoughts of suicide and memories of prison, to dreams of raising children. Love is not static or stable, and in these fluid poems, its evolving and ever-unfinished essence is on full display. |
Deliver Us
Robinson & Kovite Comically absurd and painfully real, DELIVER US is a prescient and provocative literary novel that moves swiftly through near-future Detroit as a black social-media activist leads a campaign against Amazon, whose new fleet of delivery drones offers rebirth to the blighted city while threatening to magnify existing racial inequalities. |
Get Money
Richard C. Armstrong III The only thing harder than saying a smart thing in a smart way is saying a smart thing in an outrageous way, in a silly way, or in downright dumb way. Richard Armstrong's poems are so impactful because their veneer invites you to prejudge them as fluff, and when you do, they slip between your ribs and prick your heart . The genius of Get Money is in how it creates an emotive impact through sloganeering, through the melding of bro-speak, blue-collar imagery, street slang, and archaic capital-R Romantic posturing. It's next level shit. |
The Shape of Reality to Come
Ryan Boudinot Virtual reality and artificial intelligence are already changing what it means to be an artist, an entrepreneur, and a human. In this appropriately strange and delightful book, Ryan Boudinot charts the course of this cultural shift through essays, musings, and even leadership principles. The world will be different by the time you finish reading it, and so will you. |