Category Archives: Books

"American artist Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) has been celebrated internationally for his boxes, collages, and films since the 1930s. His mining of far-flung ideas and traditions and elegant integration of woodworking, painting, papering, and drawing define the innovation and visual poetry … Continue reading →

"The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country’s most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, … Continue reading →

Moleskinerie friend Jeffrey Yamaguchi over at 52 Projects has a new book: "The book takes a raw and humorous look at the workplace and offers up unique and offbeat ways to improve your work experience, ways to keep the relentless … Continue reading →

Found this beauty in a bookstore in the little seaside village called Avalon, in Sydney, Australia. Explorer’s Notebook: Essays On Life, History and Climate The Penguin Group describes it as follows: An Explorer’s Notebook is an exhilarating selection of Tim … Continue reading →

An experiment in perspective, an epic with multiple players, A Century Is Nothing takes the reader on a pilgrimage to the subconscious. Join Omar, an exiled Tuareg Berber and blind prescient writer from the Moroccan Sahara, on his travels as … Continue reading →

Think your Thanksgiving is as American as pumpkin pie? Not so fast. Food historian Jack Turner explains to Andrea Seabrook how plants like cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg made their way around the world onto our dinner plates. Listen to All … Continue reading →

A Moleskinerie friend wrote: "i was trying to figure out why i don’t ‘journal’ morebasically it is because  my handwriting is illegiblei prefer to type. i remembered my buddy sam’s site  pendemonium.com (beware office porn)has a whole section of penmanship … Continue reading →

As he wrote Moby-Dick, Herman Melville imagined that his study had become a whaling ship’s cabin. In pencil tracings still visible today, William Faulkner plotted the intricate webs of his fiction on his walls. In these and myriad other ways … Continue reading →

Part of everything I’ve published was written in Copenhagen, and being in the old city, which lies within medieval boundary walls that no longer exist, still makes me want to get to work. Perhaps that is because so much extraordinary … Continue reading →

Moleskinerie friend R. Bean’s first book is out! "The book with a little book inside is finally ready for the world outside! It’s 7×7 + 160 full color pages. I wanted it to feel like the reader had a sketchbook … Continue reading →