In the subtext--or super text--of a 1947 book called Pleasure of Ruins, I found the opportunity to revisit its photographed ancient ruins with my own sense of pleasure, my own horror of ruin.
Hey! The big news is that my new book about collecting has "launched" at the University of Chicago Press. That means it has gone into the production phase, which takes a while, including a cover design (what you see is my own crude concept). They say the book will be "out" in August 2027.
On September 15, 2020, I introduce my new and improved website, which has been up-Drupaled by experts at 95Visual. The old website had become a hazardous land of sadly-in-need-of-an-update. So I took advantage of a time when just about all you can do is stare at a laptop anyway to transform the site I had been calling Ruined Books into Hyper-Illuminated Books.
