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.
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Designer, 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K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher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 Fisher
Thinking of Mark Fisher today. I only met him once, in passing, but his work has been a big influence. K-Punk forever.
Paperback, 2018
$35.00$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
$120.00$95.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Mark Fisher
Probably 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
$19.95$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
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first 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
$23.99$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book