Brian LaRossa Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Executive Art Director @Scholastic (Orchard, Branches, Acorn). Educator @CityCollegeNY (Design Criticism). Writer (Fiction). He/Him. BLM. 💙❤️
The Book Publishing Industry
Albert N. GrecoBrian LaRossaFive topics I can talk about for 30 mins w/o any prep: 1. The Neuroscience of Reading 2. Design Criticism 3. The Book Publishing Industry 4. Book Design 5. Homemade Pizza https://twitter.com/leeloowrites/status/1477697349300412428
Paperback, 2013
$82.99$57.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Motherhood
Sheila HetiBrian LaRossa@ableparris I thought Sheila Heti did a nice job delving into this bias in her novel Motherhood.
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
John B. ThompsonBrian LaRossaIf you're interested in the #DOJvPRH coverage I recommend the book "Merchants of Culture." John B. Thompson is a sociologist and he breaks the structure of trade publishing's culture down in a rigorous way. https://t.co/cf0FZFj6Nw
Hardcover, 2013
$67.50$42.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Designerly Ways of Knowing
Nigel CrossBrian LaRossaTonight in my design criticism class we read and discussed: 1. The Black designer’s identity (https://t.co/9TTc0pxJEk), by Anne Berry 2. Designerly Ways of Knowing (https://t.co/NjKkqUirky), by Nigel Cross 3. Undesigning Our Identity (https://t.co/cyWkZKnShR), by me
Paperback, 2010
$199.00$174.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong KingstonBrian LaRossaThat list: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Sieko, Zami by Audre Lorde Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldula, One Hundred Demons by Linda Barry, What It Is by Linda Barry, Calamities by Renee Gladman, and Inferno by Eileen Myles.✨
Paperback, 1989
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Calamities
Renee GladmanBrian LaRossaThat list: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Sieko, Zami by Audre Lorde Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldula, One Hundred Demons by Linda Barry, What It Is by Linda Barry, Calamities by Renee Gladman, and Inferno by Eileen Myles.✨
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fox 8: A Story
George SaundersBrian LaRossa“A story means, at the highest level, not by what it concludes but by how it proceeds.” —George Saunders You might say the opposite about an essay.
Hardcover, 2018
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Graphic Design: The New Basics (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded)
Ellen LuptonBrian LaRossaAaaand then we read: 3. “The Designer as Producer” by Ellen Lupton (https://t.co/Q5oKOvJzOD) 4. “Graphic Design is a Literary Discipline” by me! (https://t.co/WdayJfggKk)
Paperback, 2015
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno: A Poet's Novel
Eileen MylesBrian LaRossaThat list: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Storyteller by Leslie Marmon Sieko, Zami by Audre Lorde Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldula, One Hundred Demons by Linda Barry, What It Is by Linda Barry, Calamities by Renee Gladman, and Inferno by Eileen Myles.✨
Paperback, 2016
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
Audre LordeBrian LaRossa@MissIllustrator I’m currently pretty far down an autofiction/biomythography rabbit hole. Finishing “How a Person Should be” by Shiela Heti, Starting “Zami: Another Spelling of My Name” by Audre Lorde. Not adventure in the traditional sense. Have you read “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore?”
Paperback, 1982
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book