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Louis Lüthi
Infant A
This is the second installment of The Social Life of the Book, which is a quarterly, subscription-based series of texts by writers, artists, publishers, designers, booksellers, etc., reflecting on reading, designing, publishing, and distributing books today.
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Moyra Davey
The Wet and the Dry/Lo Húmedo y lo Seco

This is the second installment of The Social Life of the Book, which is a quarterly, subscription-based series of texts by writers, artists, publishers, designers, booksellers, etc., reflecting on reading, designing, publishing, and distributing books today.
Moyra Davey (1958, Toronto) is an artist, a photographer and a writer, one of the founding members of the collectively-run gallery Orchard (2005-2008). She notably published 'The Problem of Reading' (Documents Books, 2003), and is the editor of 'Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood' (Seven Stories Press, 2001). More recently, she dealt with Walter Benjamin's correspondence and the presence of sculpted books in Parisian cemetries in her 2009 video 'My Necropolis', and used the form of the 'air letter' to circulate her photographs.
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Oscar Tuazon
Haciendo Libros/Making Books

This is Issue 1 of "The Social Life of the Book," which describes itself as “a monthly, subscription based series of original texts by writers, artists, publishers, designers, booksellers, etc., reflecting on reading, designing, publishing, and distributing books, today.” It is edited by castillo/corrales in Paris, and published through its Paraguay Press Imprint. Tuazon begins and ends his short text with accounts of book making: his parents bookbindery, principally producing blank books such as photo albums and sketchbooks; his own use of traditional bookmaking skills  to produce his two artist books, Dwelling Portably and Leave Me Be.

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