Nate Pedersen

9/11 and Cultural Loss
The Associated Press reported last week on the loss of historical records and documents in the 9/11 attacks, a
Collecting Photobooks
Guerilla Book Art
The Polar Almanac
Battered Books
Last week, the Guardian profiled the charm of battered books:
P. Lal, Founder of Writers Workshop, Dies at 81
Invention of Writing Exhibition
Early writing developed independently at four spots around the ancient world: Mesopotamia, China, Egypt, and Mesoamerica.
Collecting Phone Books
Those famous doorstops are now the basis of some striking collections.
Kafkaesque
Blogs Before Blogs
Check out Robert Darnton's engaging piece on pre-cursors to blogs over at the New York Review of Books' Blog.