Above: Animated roller based on Unit 4 Exercise 4 of the Animation for Typographic Compositions Course on Domestika.
Speaking of print not being dead, here’s a list of stuff I read during the lockdown and just before.
(Don’t judge, I need more proof that I wasn’t just doomscrolling or playing Breath of the Wild/Stardew Valley with Juju.)
Second Wave
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tocarczuk
- Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
- Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
- The Lost Libraries by Abigail Reynolds
- The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung Chul-Han
- Beg, Copy, Steal – Artists against originality by Elephant Books
- The Useless Guide to Book Design by are not books
- Publishing as the Critical Practice of Graphic Design
- Hungry by Grace Dent
- Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss
- The Age of Umbrage by Jessica Zafra
- The Dream of Reason Produces Monsters by Jessica Zafra
- Extra Bold edited by Ellen Lupton
- Summer by Ali Smith
- Dune (again) by Frank Herbert
- The Gastronomical Me by MFK Fisher
- Beautiful World, Where are You? by Sally Rooney
- Some Trick by Helen De Witt
- My Struggle: Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- My Struggle 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- More than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
- Lightning Rods by Helen Dewitt
- Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite by Andrew Jenkinson
- Emergency Contact by Mary HK Choi
- Yolk by Mary HK Choi
- Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
First Wave
- The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
- Weather by Jenny Offill
- The Years by Annie Ernaux
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
- Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche by Nick Currie
- Burial Rites Hannah Kent (coz Iceland)
- Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman
- Agency by William Gibson
- The Not Nice book (self-help, i know)
- Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris
- Multi-hyphenate Method (out of curiosity) Emma Gannon
- The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
- A Room of One’s Own (again) by Virginia Woolf
- Intimations by Zadie Smith
- Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson
- Recollections of my non-existence by Rebecca Solnit
- The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- Riverrun by Danton Remoto
- The Mental Load a Feminist Comic by Emma
Pre-lockdown (2019)
- Insurrecto, Gina Apostol
- Things I Lost in the Flood by Laurie Anderson
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaegy
- The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
- What if this was enough? Essays by Heather Havrilevsky
- Lonely Planet San Francisco
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- Killing Commandatore, HMurakami,
- Patterning Instinct
- Frankisstein by Jeanette Winterson
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Tsundoku 2019
- Duncan Fallwell, How to Disappear
- Zadie Smith, Feel Free
- Maria Popova, Figuring
- James Bridle, The New Dark Age
- Hito Steyerl, Duty Free Art
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
- Starving Cancer
- Lincoln in the Bardo
- Goldfinch
- The Far Away Nearby
- Ted Chiang Compilation
- Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
- Infinite City: San Francisco
- Year of the Monkey
- Grand Union Zadie Smith
- Fleabag , the original monologue by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
- Bicycle Diaries
- Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There
- Josh Cohen, 4 Messages
- Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes
- Illustrated A Brief History of Time
- Diastasis Recti
- Laurie Anderson, Things I Lost in the Flood
- Joan Didion, White Album
- Geoff Dyer, Working the Room
- Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
- Don’t Make Me Think
- Steve Wozniak, iWoz
