Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
McSweeney's, 2009
Set in New Orleans during Katrina, this nonfiction account of one man's harrowing ordeal in a city dissolving into toxic anarchy could have been unremittingly harsh and depressing, but it reads like a thriller. Very hard to put down. [JL]
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The Jet Age Compendium: Paolozzi at Ambit 1967-1980
David Brittain
Four Corners Books, 2009
One of the compensations of living in London and travelling on its Dickensian subway system is the mosaic-clad walls at Tottenham Court Road station. Designed by Eduardo Paolozzi in 1984, it's hard to imagine them surviving. For those who can’t see Paolozzi’s subterranean wonderwalls, this book on his relationship with the radical magazine Ambit, offers lavish compensation. [AS]
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Collections of Nothing
William Davies King
University of Chicago Press, 2008
Nearly everyone collects something, unless you're William Davies King, in which case you collect, well, pretty much everything — from broken bits of furniture to retro cereal boxes, his tales of aggregating so much stuff are at turns funny, poignant, deeply human and delightfully visual. [JH]
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