Each of these makes its argument by being it: a novel that is literally other people’s mail, glued in and waiting to be unfolded; a journaling guide hand-lettered on every page; a pop-up encyclopedia two and a half inches thick with twelve pages of folded dinosaurs. None of it survives translation to a screen, which is the whole point.
A picture-book litany of thanks, built on tsukumogami
→ themarginalian.org
Peter Goes's black-ink history of everything, one oversized spread per era
→ geckopress.com
George Saunders's fable of orange pests, illustrated by Lane Smith
→ penguinrandomhouse.com
A pop-up book twelve pages long and two and a half inches thick
→ kk.org
The 7th Griffin & Sabine book, read by unfolding glued-in letters
→ amazon.com
Dan Price's hand-lettered chapbook guide to visual journaling
→ amazon.com
Slap into it every stray thought
→ quoteinvestigator.com