It started with a Facebook link; recommendation from a friend for something brilliant and (possibly) disturbing. This was by Mark Jenkins — an artist with a new book (The Urban Theater) highlighting creations from the last nine years. Students at art colleges may be particularly interested in this book. According to the introduction, Mark “began his art […]
Garrett Tiedemann’s piece “Cleaning House,” reflected on how difficult it is to get rid of books in order to make space for the new. Books are fabulous. I choose book over Nook any day, but books do take up space. Books are rectangular chunks of space-taking; receptacles of language whose pages preserve traces of thumb-throughs and […]
A couple of months ago, I happened to be looking up information about Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous piece, “What is man?” So, as I am wont to do, I fired up my computer and looked up the wikipedia page on it. The first line of the entry read: “What is man?” is a piece […]
Words of wisdom from H.H. Schopenhauer: “Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” An inversion: perhaps the fool is the person who has many books on his/her shelf; […]
Our cover artist, Jacob van Loon, is currently one of the “Arts”-tag editors at Tumblr.com, and he recently collaborated with our managing editor, Benjamin van Loon, to provide a little background on the history and philosophy of Anobium publications. Head over to jvlendnote to learn more about Anobium and get a special discount deal on […]
