This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completion.
Diary of a somebody – after biographer Alexander Masters was given a pile of diaries found in a skip, he began piecing together a life.
Hygge – the Danish art of living cosily – on its way to UK bookshops. Be afraid.
Brief interviews with very small publishers. Featuring the rather niche Donkey Talk, Grief Digest Magazine and Girls and Corpses.
Creative Review talk to designer Tom Etherington about the revived Penguin Modern Poets series.
CNN interview Penguin Classics publisher Elda Rotor. Features some smashing book-filled photos of the Penguin Random House New York office.
Abandoned 123,000 sq ft Walmart converted into America’s largest single-floor library.
The wonderful Things Magazine have reviewed their big list of design, art and photography links – interesting to see what websites have simply fallen off the internet.
I can't stop looking at the work of graphic designer Wang Zhi-Hong. Absolutely stunning.