For my first book of the new year (2012: The Homo Sapiens Swan Song ), I read Joseph Masco’s labor of love, The Nuclear Borderlands. It’s an obsessively researched work of anthropology, cultural criticism, nuclear history, sociology, and eschatology. I was born during the final years of the Cold War, where nuclear paranoia was still a […]
(Have you ever read Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style? He tells the same story in different ways. Each version of) Some Skinhead Shit (this short story explores different literary tropes: notation…) By: Jacob Singer (word game, and visual. See, each and every short story consists of making a million little decisions on what to show […]
“Sometimes you work for days and days, and nothing comes out. Then, for some reason, when you’re angry and depressed – inside of you, you can feel that this energy is coming to the surface, and then this energy comes alive on the paper or the canvas.”
I believe this qualifies as a vision. At Anobium, we aren’t only interested in books. Music is important to us, too. And so is Chicago. And so is the idea of independent artistry. We don’t tout these flags, but they are hanging on our walls.
