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SMALL VICTORIES

Friday, September 3, 2010

On the eve of a festival about self-publishing and small run publications, a story of small successes from one author-run publishing house in Estonia:
Petrone Print was founded three years ago by Justin and Epp Petrone, husband and wife, prolific bloggers both. Justin, an American with Italian heritage, met Epp, an Estonian, while travelling through Finland. [...]

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BERLIN PUBLISHING WEEKEND #02: UNTER DEM MOTTO

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

So, of course next to Miss Read at Kunstwerke, our friends at Motto bookstore and Chert gallery will host the second round of Unter dem Motto book fair, with a focus on slightly more edgy and alternative magazines and art publications. Or, in their own words: ‘More than 70 publishers from about 17 countries will [...]

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BERLIN PUBLISHING WEEKEND 2010 #01: MISS READ

Sunday, August 29, 2010

After the success of last year, the Berlin Publishing Weekend is upon us again: Parallel to the Art Book Fair Unter dem Motto 2010 (with the participation of mono.kultur, of course!), KW Institute for Contemporary Art organizes the artist book festival MISS READ.
For the second time MISS READ has invited international publishers and artists to [...]

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SAVE THE DATE

Friday, August 20, 2010
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IDEA BOOKS & NIEVES SUMMER STORE

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Idea Books in collaboration with Nieves returns to The Front Room at St Martins Lane on Monday 16th August for a four week only Summer Store.  Summer Store will include a wide selection of Nieves titles, new and out of print zines, special editions, posters, pins and bookmarks, as well as an extension of Idea [...]

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SUMMER JEST

Monday, August 16, 2010

Embarking on the mammoth project of tackling Infinite Jest by the late and great David Foster Wallace (which was published in German almost exactly one year ago, by the way, with the translation taking up six years…) – if you’re fortunate enough to have a few weeks of summer holidays left, then this should keep [...]

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FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Ever since I saw it at the Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art exhibition at the Getty in LA, I have dreamed of owning this book. Cornerstones of the Provoke era in Japanese photography, Takuma Nakahira’s grainy, off-kilter, unfocused, and high-contrast images of Japanese street life really did formulate a new visual vernacular for 70s image-makers. Though he [...]

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THE POETICS OF SPRAWL

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dropping in a few days: Danielle Dutton’s fantastic S P R A W L – check out an excerpt on the BOMB podcast.

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BUCH ARM

Monday, July 26, 2010

The Buch Arm is a device for rearranging your library and an extension to your bookshelf.  It was originally designed for the Goethe-Institut New York by Manuel Raeder, ifau and Jesko Fezer. New, appropriated versions are available now to potentially purchase for your mono.kultur library and bookshelf by contacting either Manuel Raeder or ifau.

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POPCORN VS DOG

Sunday, July 18, 2010

In the first chapter of his latest book Eating Animals, American author and vegetarian Jonathan Safran Foer lists reasons why it would be quite ethical to eat dogs. At the end of the chapter he lists a classic Filipino recipe for ‘Stewed Dog, Wedding Style’. In today’s Observer Food Monthly’s vegetarian special, Foer is among [...]

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