Mark Owens Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Mark Owens on XDesigner, writer, and art director, working between New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Teaching @Yale and @Penn.

K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Mark FisherThinking of Mark Fisher today. I only met him once, in passing, but his work has been a big influence. K-Punk forever.
Paperback, 2018
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Character as Form
Aaron Kunin@HesterBlum Aaron Kunin’s Character As Form from Bloomsbury (2019)
Hardcover, 2018
$120.00Member price:$120.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Mark FisherProbably a little too on the nose, but spending the weekend reading Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire @RepeaterBooks and listening to the the new Sleaford Mods LP, Spare Ribs @sleafordmods
Hardcover, 2021
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham@fit_as_fuc The architectural theorist Reyner Banham, the first great reader of Los Angeles, was a working class bloke from Norwich.
Paperback, 2009
$28.95Member price:$28.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Magnolia: The Shooting Script
Paul Thomas Anderson@_MichaelOswell_ My very first summer graphic design job while still a student involved mocking up movie posters for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. I read the script my first day. PTA faxed us ideas. When I returned to school I was invited to attend a pre-release screening in Times Square.
Paperback, 2000
$23.99Member price:$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book