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Paris-based Gemma Janes turned her Instagram book recommendations into the very personal book subscription service, Sendb00ks. And her career in modeling ensured that the finishing touches of her packaging and approach are both beautiful and chic. Of course those things only go so far if they don't come with depth and intelligence, and this week's installment of One Great Reader shows both Gemma and her service to possess all of the above. Click to read more...

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A lot of girls can say they "probably read too much Anaïs Nin as a teenager", but very few have been able to do what Isabella Burley has done, turning that sensibility into an estimable career as an editor in the worlds of art & fashion (most recently of Helmut Lang and Dazed), as well as a bookseller combining those worlds with her own fascinations around the culture of sexuality. In this installment of One Great Reader, Wes Del Val charts Isabella's maps of the weird, the cool, and the sexy. Click to read more...

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Lee Kaplan, the bookseller behind L.A.'s indispensable Arcana Books, gives tips on what photobooks to buy now (while you still can), books as decoration, what's better than finding a 100 dollar bill in a used book, and much more in our longest One Great Reader interview yet. A real treasure and must-read for those who love to look behind the scenes of great bookstores. Click to read more...

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For many of us, classic-film streaming service the Criterion Channel has been a saving grace during Covid, an instant remedy to all the empty cultural calories we've consumed on our phones, anxiety-creating news cycles, or made-to-be-forgotten TV shows. We wouldn't want to live without Criterion, and it's driven us to both read more books about film and to stock more film-related writing in our shop. What a treat, then, to share this conversation between Wes Del Val and Berlin-based writer David Hudson, who blogs so intelligently and entertainingly for Criterion Collection. Here he swings wide the gates of his prodigious knowledge about film writings, making us clear more shelf space at home for the books he's recommended in the latest installment of One Great Reader. Click to read more...

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Internationally-renowned writer, filmmaker, and photographer William E. Jones takes us on a sunlit walk through some of the shadier corners of art and literature, bringing obscure authors to the surface, and leaving us racing to keep up with his excellent reading recommendations. Click to see more....

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We find that many people see a kind of division between the world of books and the worlds of other arts. But in our view the most exciting art is usually informed by deep reading and that the most exciting minds are informed by both. Book editor and art-world documentarian James Crump is just this sort of person, and we're thrilled to present this conversation, where books and art intersect so naturally. Click to read more...

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The third installment of One Great Reader's second series brings us tales from the dark side (horror novels, counter-culture pranks) by one of the chief Editors-in-Chief of our culture, Jesse Pearson. Click to read more...

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We could tell you about writer Stephanie LaCava, or you could look her up in either the literary or fashion pages of Vogue, the Telegraph, The Paris Review, Elle, New York Magazine, Esquire, etc., etc.. She's also the founder of artist led publisher Small Press. Intrigued? Get out your pencil, because she's about to recommend a lot of very good books in this latest installment of One Great Reader. Click to read more...

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Series 2 of our interview series by Wes Del Val begins with writer Kaitlin Phillips in a highly engaging conversation full of wit, energy, and fun (not to mention fantastic book recommendations). Click to read more...

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