Book Reviews
Andrew Stout
Andrew Stout is a writer. His journalism has appeared in The Economist, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic online, and The Village Voice, among other publications. He is working on a book about humor in art and design as well as a dictionary of love clichés.
Andrew's Posts
Mr. Grieves
Andrew Stout, Columns, Homepage Sub •
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Jan 08, 2013
An animal or plant — or maybe even an ovum — talks. Sometimes to itself, but more often to another of its kind. The idea is simple, but the execution is smart and almost always funny in Scott Semegran’s collection of 140 four-panel comics drawn between 2004 and 2008, “Mr. Grieves”. Read On
Modicum
Book Reviews, Fiction, Graphic Novel •
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“Modicum” is a best-of selection of bursts of whimsy from the Austin-native’s prolific output throughout the 2000s. Read On
What Virginia Woolf Knew About Making Books
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Andrew Stout •
Oct 16, 2012
While Woolf’s regard for the reader might be inspiring to any writer, her commitment to making books that stand as beautiful objects is instructive to independent author-publishers in particular. Read On
Cyrano’s Gaffe: The Book-That-is-More-Than-a-Book
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Aug 01, 2012
Who was the first person to pick up a book, dust its cover, thumb its pages, and think “you know, this really should be more than a book — there should be some, I dunno, music or something to go with this, too, to make it, er, immersive?” Read On
The Pleasure of the Text
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Andrew Stout •
Jun 13, 2012
Is Drag City, an influential record label, ready to make its mark on publishing? And will Jay Ruttenburg’s The Lowbrow Reader Reader be the book to make the mark? Read On
Small Wonders
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May 03, 2012
What the miniature book boom says about the state of print. Read On
An Unfamiliar Place
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Andrew Stout •
Apr 05, 2012
Kathryn Desforges doesn’t remember much about March 2, 2010. It was a Tuesday. She got up around nine. The weather was bright, the house was silent. But when her boyfriend came back for lunch she had to tell him to keep quiet, begging the perfectly reasonable question for an outside observer: why? Read On
About A Bird
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Andrew Stout •
Feb 17, 2012
Each book is a world unto itself — a sort-of art object, with its formatting, color, and typography lovingly chosen by the author. The entire floor space of the shop speaks to the idea that the beauty of a book can stretch far beyond its text. Read On
