Work by Suss

  1. The WILLA Wiki List

    Posted in Gossip!, November 2009

    “Women in Letters and Literary Arts started The WILLA List to note great books by women that Publishers Weekly missed in 2009.” The PW 2009 Top Ten was all male; this is an unranked top cou­ple hun­dred in fic­tion, poetry, non­fic­tion, and children’s/young adult to help bal­ance things out some. Start putting together your holiday [...]

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  2. Momofuku

    Posted in Gossip!, November 2009

    The cook­book, not the iconic East Village restau­rant. David Chang and Peter Meehan have writ­ten an engag­ing, funny, inter­est­ing cook­book with a nar­ra­tive and a point of view; Gabriele Stabile’s pho­tog­ra­phy is breath­tak­ing and func­tional; the design­ers at Clarkson Potter have made it all look amaz­ing (the typog­ra­phy choices alone are worth a shout out). [...]

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  3. Juliet, Naked

    Posted in Gossip!, November 2009

    You don’t need us to tell you about Nick Hornby. But we will say this: every­thing we’ve ever liked about his pre­vi­ous books—the music in-jokes, the skill­ful treat­ment of mul­ti­ple points of view, parent-child rela­tion­ships, the com­pli­cated mess of adult rela­tion­ships, the simul­ta­ne­ous and equally nuanced indict­ment and sup­port of pop­u­lar cul­ture and those who [...]

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  4. Garamond Italics Ampersand

    Posted in Gossip!, October 2009

    It’s spe­cial, this one, def­i­nitely not for every­day use. It’s the “good China” of typo­graphic con­junc­tions. But boy howdy—used prop­erly, it can take your breath away.

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  5. The NASA app for iPhone

    Posted in Gossip!, October 2009

    Released just last week, this free app has quickly become a favorite. Flip through pho­tos and video from cur­rent and past mis­sions, plot the International Space Station in its rela­tion to the earth—then watch it move across the night sky in real time. Remember those dreams you had about Space Camp and grow­ing up to [...]

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