I’ve written a blog post about finishing Character Traits for the University of Utah’s Marriott Library/Red Butte Press blog. Take a look here!

Two recent talks of mine are now available online. The first was delivered at the Library of Congress in January, “Hiccups, Trip-Ups, and Total Disasters: Thoughts on Making Books.” The second at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO in May, “Comprehending a Cube: Eighteen Months of Living with Euclid.”

If you happen to be in Venice this week, stop by Chiarastella Cattana’s boutique for a presentation of Character Traits. Friday evening, April 26, 6–9pm, Salizzada San Samuele, San Marco 3216.

I have just received the binding mock-up of Character Traits from binder Amy Borezo. Come see it at the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair on March 10th, or the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair on March 24th and 25th. If you’d like to hear about some of the work that lead up to Character Traits, my lecture, “Making Third Stream Books in the Post-Digital Age,” is now online as a Bodleian Library podcast.

Thinking 3D has featured Interstices & Intersections or, An Autodidact Comprehends a Cube as its item in focus. In the post, I discuss my approach to drawing the diagram for proposition xiii.17 from Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. If you are in New York you can see the actual book at the main branch of the New York Public Library in the exhibit What’s New? Recent Acquisitions.

My work appears in two new trade publication this month. Susan Roether wrote a lengthy, nuanced review of my 2016 book, Some Problems with Red, for the current Book Club of California Quarterly (free with any membership in the Book Club of California); and my article “Letterforms, Alphabets, Typefaces” is out in the “The New Bookbinder” Vol. 37 from Designer Bookbinders, who were kind enough to use my letter O from Linear A to Linear Z for the cover image.

During October I will be the Bodleian Libraries’ Printer in Residence. As part of the residency I will be giving a talk titled, Making Third Stream Books in the Post-Digital Age, at 5:15pm on October 17th at the Weston Library Lecture Theatre. For details visit the Bodleian’s webpage. I will also be working at the Bodleian’s Bibliographic Press most weekdays. If you are going to be in Oxford and would like to visit, email me to set up a time.

Take a sneak peak at Roma Abstract at the Solstice Book Fair in Iowa City, June 22nd.

Ovid on Climate Change is now available online. Get it while you can!

Used copies of Hungry Bibliophiles will be on display at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, January 21–February 3, 2017. Facsimile copies showing the used and annotated recipes are now available in Books in Print! Above: Maria Frederick’s copy of Hungry Bibliophiles.