Who Knew?

I received the inevitable apex of print fetishism for my birthday. But seriously, in a time when the future of the newspaper seems to lie only in touchscreens and e-ink, releasing a 320-page broadsheet (the pages are maybe three inches wider than those of the NYT) is an amazing feat. Right now I’m just paging through it with only the most cursory of glances, marveling at how this even exists. Seeing comics by Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware on awful newsprint when I’ve only previously viewed their work on the archival-quality stock of their paperbacks is a revelation all by itself - having all these authors I love published within this artifact that’s bound to yellow and wither away within the year is mind-blowing. Daniel Handler tossed off a column on page 3, for fuck’s sake. Also looking forward to reading Reality Hunger and Gravity’s Rainbow.

I received the inevitable apex of print fetishism for my birthday.

But seriously, in a time when the future of the newspaper seems to lie only in touchscreens and e-ink, releasing a 320-page broadsheet (the pages are maybe three inches wider than those of the NYT) is an amazing feat. Right now I’m just paging through it with only the most cursory of glances, marveling at how this even exists. Seeing comics by Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware on awful newsprint when I’ve only previously viewed their work on the archival-quality stock of their paperbacks is a revelation all by itself - having all these authors I love published within this artifact that’s bound to yellow and wither away within the year is mind-blowing. Daniel Handler tossed off a column on page 3, for fuck’s sake.

Also looking forward to reading Reality Hunger and Gravity’s Rainbow.

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