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Geography of Home
In a literary tour of the spaces of our homes, Geography of Home reflects on how we define such elusive qualities as privacy, security, and comfort. Part social history, part architectural history, part personal anecdote, this book uncovers the hidden meanings of the place we call home. These writings touch on our culture's fundamental issues: the notion of family, the aging of the population, working at home, and respect for the environment. Together, these essays help us understand not only what home means for each of us, but how our idea of home shapes our place in the world.
Everything Else is Bric-a-Brac
A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights on family, domestic space, and a changing environment. Beautifully illustrated with 20 pieces of watercolor art, this collection makes an inspirational gift. In Everything Else Is Bric-a-Brac, Akiko Busch explores place, memory, and the ambiguities of domestic life. At once thought-provoking, humorous, and meditative, these essays illuminate the emotional resonance of inanimate things; ideas of placement and displacement; the simultaneous frailty and tenacity of human recollection; the beauty of usefulness and uselessness alike; and how we do—and don't—find our place in things.
How to Disappear
It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice. In our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our p...
Ezra Stoller, Photographer
A long-awaited survey of the full range of Stoller's stunning photography
The Uncommon Life of Common Objects
"In The Uncommon Life of Common Objects, Akiko Busch devotes a chapter each to twelve objects, looking at the reasons these items took the forms they did and discussing how everyday things acquire their significance through daily human experience."--Jacket.
Let's Entertain
This major collection of interdisciplinary essays by several notable artists and cultural critics examines the many issues surrounding the relationship between art and entertainment. Topics range from the films of David Lynch to celebrity politics. 150 color and 75 b&w photos. Ties into traveling exhibit.
Patience
In a day and age when rapid-fire text messaging and the "Slow" movement are both offered as strategies for making the most out of life, our ability to negotiate time seems ever more crucial. Here, Akiko Busch offers personal anecdotes, descriptions of natural phenomena, and quotations from enlightened thinkers that explore the relationship between time, patience, and the natural world.
Then Again
Just before supper on the coldest February eleventh ever in Sevier County, Utah, farmer Evan Oakerlund, age fifty, goes out to look for the family dog and doesn't come back. An hour later, Evan's wife, Nona, finds his body not fifty yards from their back porch. Three hours after that, the news of Evan's sudden death reaches his son Robbie, who is six thousand miles away in Austria and just four days from completing a two-year Mormon mission. Then Again is the story of Robbie's trip home. He hastily leaves the glaciered majesties of the Central Alps for the lava-domed hayfields where he grew up. He is warmly welcomed back to his tiny home town by his grieving loved ones, but they have become not quite his family. Vermillion is a place like home, but not home, and he finds that his youth is a past that is there to stay.
Lives of the Hudson
Included in the book are over twenty new essays by writers Akiko Busch, Kathryn Davis, Terence Diggory, Carolyn Forche, Phillip Lopate, Rick Moody, Tom Sleigh, and John Stilgoe among many other scholars, poets, and journalists. --Book Jacket.
The Incidental Steward
DIVA thoughtful citizen scientist contemplates our changing natural world and the value of stewardship/div
