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36 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 general interest 37 the ice plant kaya press the ice plant this is a bust by ed lin this is a bust the second novel by award-winning author ed lin turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of new york city s chinatown circa 1976 through the eyes of a chinese-american cop a vietnam vet and an alcoholic robert chow s troubles are compounded by the fact that he s basically community-relations window-dressing for the nypd he s the only chinese-american on the chinatown beat and the only police officer who can speak cantonese but he s never assigned anything more challenging than appearances at store openings or community events chow is willing to stuff down his feelings and hang tight for a promotion to the detective track despite the community unrest that begins to roil around him but when his superiors remain indifferent to an old chinese woman s death he is forced to take matters into his own hands this is a bust is at once a murder mystery a noir homage and a devastating uniquely nuanced portrait of a neighborhood in flux stuck between old rivalries and youthful idealism ed lin was born in new york city and grew up in new jersey and pennsylvania lin who is of taiwanese and chinese descent currently lives in new york he is the author of waylaid this is a bust 1-885030-45-2 978-1-885030-45-0 paperback 5.25 x 8 in 225 pgs u.s $14.95 cdn $18.00 august/literature tamara shopsin c est le pied handsomely designed and illustrated by tamara shopsin this small paperback leads the reader through a series of visual puns and subtle wordplay in the form of 45 simple line drawings an odd gem in the vein of certain mcsweeney s publications with a bit of raymond pettibon thrown in it highlights an absurdist humor that can also be found at her newest venture shopsin s general store online where one can find such eclectic staples as an honest abe cloisonné lapel pin featuring the emotional sixteenth president of the united states a wooden tongue depressor silk-screened with the phrase i was born on a pirate ship various darkly adorable letterpress notecards and a scarf with red and white marbling that is designed to look like a long soft strip of bacon a regular contributor to the new york times op-ed page among other cosmopolitan publications shopsin is a cook and graphic artist based in new york tamara shopsin c est le pied 0-9776481-4-1 978-0-9776481-4-6 paperback 6.5 x 4.5 in 64 pgs 45 b&w u.s $14.95 cdn $18.00 august/art/popular culture little steidl d.a.p is pleased to announce our most surprising new imprint little steidl a series of exquisitely produced high-concept children s books by today s most celebrated contemporary artists brought to us by steidl publishers of göttingen germany previously announced 5 year diary designed by tamara shopsin this book belongs to reads the frontispiece of the little red diary followed by the words `florence wolfson scrawled in faded black ink inside the worn leather cover in brief breathless dispatches written on goldedged pages the journal recorded five years of the life and times of a smart and headstrong new york teenager a girl who loved balzac central park and male and female lovers with equal abandon the diary was a gift for her fourteenth birthday on august 11 1929 and she wrote a few lines faithfully every day until she turned 19 then like so many relics of time past it was forgotten for more than half a century inside an old steamer trunk plastered with vintage travel stickers that evoke the glamorous golden age of ocean liner voyages the trunk in turn languished in the basement of 98 riverside drive until october 2003 when the management decided it was time to clear out the storage area the new york times brought to you by the ice plant in collaboration with shopsin s general store this charming pint-sized and extremely well-designed diary inspired by a 2006 story in the new york times lets you keep track of your life with just a few lines every day for five years each page of the diary is devoted to one day of the year and subdivided into five sections-so that as time goes by past entries can be read as new ones are written clothbound in delicate nubby pinstripes with a red ribbon bookmark it is designed so that it can be started on any day of the year even on a leap year in the back of the diary are pages to record books read and places traveled an ideal gift for sophisticated nostalgics new parents dreamers schemers and plain old lovers of good design designer tamara shopsin may be best known for her illustrations for the new york times op-ed page and her designs for jack spade paper goods she has also illustrated book covers and magazines including good and paper more recently she is the proprietress of shopsin s general store where she sells witty and slightly retro novelties and goods 5 year diary 0-9776481-3-3 978-0-9776481-3-9 hardcover 3.75 x 6.5 in 376 pgs u.s $24.95 cdn $30.00 available/popular culture lawrence weiner something to put something on neither storybook nor autobiography something to put something on is rather a questioning book for children at once moving and intriguing in its candor it poses direct questions about art-making to and for young readers generously endowed with its maker s legendary wit it is also appropriately the first title in the little steidl program lawrence weiner something to put something on 3-86521-491-6 978-3-86521-491-1 hardcover 8.5 x 10 in 44 pgs illustrated throughout u.s $30.00 cdn $36.00 november/artists books/juvenile chuck close scribble book edited by jerry sohn nina holland when confronted with the opportunity to make a children s book the internationally renowned painter photographer and printmaker chuck close quickly took to the idea of a publication without words scribble book presented in two accordion-folded volumes is a self-portrait that emerges incrementally from the printing process one plate and one color at a time chuck close scribble book 3-86521-492-4 978-3-86521-492-8 two hardcover accordions in box 13.5 x 11 in 48 pgs illust throughout u.s $50.00 cdn $60.00 november/artists books/juvenile

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