American Consequences - December 2018

Blankets By Craig Thompson

The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide: How to Split Wood, Shuck an Oyster, and Master Other Simple Pleasures By Alexandra Redgrave Covering everything from seasoning a cast iron skillet, to chopping wood, to folding a pocket square, The Kaufmann Mercantile Guide is the perfect “back to basics” book for the do-it-yourself type.

A touching and beautifully illustrated memoir about first love, growing up in a fundamentalist Christian household, and all of the confusion and heartache that comes with it. It’s a wistfully relatable coming-of-age story that left me thinking of my own awkward adolescence, and I couldn’t recommend it more. Sort of an homage to the medium, but full of great Polaroid photography taken by various well-known artists, and also some technical info, if that’s your thing. The “instant snapshot” photographs are a refreshing contrast to our selfie-obsessed digital age of filters, Photoshop, and camera phones. The Polaroid Book By Barbara Hitchcock

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