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Webb read 104(!) books this year. I'd like to hear more about the Nabokov and Mauss (and why he keeps going back for more punishment from Peter Hamilton).
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Yes the content isn't critical or as good as the design experimentation, and yet the tone of post (eg complaining that advertorial is both seamless and jarring?!) and comments grates. I freely admit to being less critical where friends' work is concerned.
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James Wood on Philip Roth's literary arc.
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James Wood on JM Coetzee.
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Travel/presenting tips.
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"...advertorial is both seamless and jarring?!"
Seamless in one place (throughout the majority of the book) and hamfisted in another (in the manga where, yes, it does rather stand out). Where's the contradiction there? : . )
Am sorry you found tone grating though. Apparently, Dan did too. Possibly one of those things that might have gone down better in person.
Posted by: AG | December 27, 2007 at 01:12 AM
Well, I wasn't sure if you were saying that the advertorial should be one or the other, or carefully situated in the middle of the seamless/jarring spectrum, or that advertorial annoys you full stop and simply shouldn't be there. Actually, I quite like them in Monocle, because they're pretty well written and put together and when embedded in content that has a "relentless focus on high-end consumption" they sit naturally. When I saw John Baldessari on the back of one the recent ones I thought: I want to read that.
Anyway, "grating": that's probably me being uncritical where something-Dan-Hill-is-involved-in is concerned. I admire your straight-talking style - haven't yet learned that myself, outside of work.
I have always enjoyed Monocle's design experimentation - the paper stocks, inserted supplement, etc - and whilst DH makes some good points in his comments to your post (one of the problems is clearly that the factors he mentions on the production side don't seem to be expressed in the product), you're right that the content is generally uncritical and I'll bow to your knowledge on its positioning.
I do agree with you that it isn't essential. I think it's unlikely to be, because I'm not sure that it's intended for you or me. For me, Economist, London Review of Books and, if there were more time Cabinet and the New Yorker, are the essential periodicals. Ah, such predictable choices...
Posted by: rodcorp | December 27, 2007 at 09:14 AM