Very thought-out collection.
930919
Very thought-out collection. Well put together with some of the classics and ones that I have just been introduced to.
2494980
An excellent collection.  Well worth your money and time.
732779
Like any anthology some stories are better than others.  Overall the writing is good, the collection is certainly ambitious in scope (including a dramatic play in its line up), and being a small press it doesn't fall into the traps of pretentious on one side or silly incompetence on the other.  It is a worth while collection for the buck.
4701832
I enjoyed this collection of stories. I will say, some are better than others, but there are so many, and the artwork is so well done, that reading them was very enjoyable.
741527
I love collections like this. I might never use most of the formulae, but I love having them around. I even have a couple of shirt pocket sized compendiums of construction and computer data, such as the DIP switch settings for thousands of now-obsolete hard disk drives. Of course, these days nearly all this information can be found on the web using a search engine.

 This collection is dedicated to marketing metrics. There are 113 formulas divided into 11 sections. Some of them are dead simple, such as "Revenue is the total income from sales of products and services". Some are a bit dodgy or doubtful, such as Consumer Franchise, which purports to show how sales are derived from committed and uncommitted buyers.

 The author has updated the book to include online media metrics, such as cost per click.

 A short explanation accompanies each metric.

 No marketer will fail because they don't have this book, but many marketers will be more effective because they have easy access to the formulae contained in this book.

Jerry
4462269
This is a wonderful collection of ideas in a very effective format. Valuable people are busy. Asking many of the best to choose or propose a pet idea in a 2-page format---no questions asked---resulted in a sparkling collection having a very high worth-to-volume
ratio. My earmarks on the book are in effect a syllabus for a couple of years of self-improvement homework: expand, digest, integrate. I'm writing a book myself; almost on every page of Brockman's I found an idea, a quote, a tack, an example that will complement something I'm writing about.
1601073
Fantastic collection. I think the quote from MARIE CLAIRE on the back sums it up: So recognizable, youll forget its fiction.

Only one clunker in the bunch as far as I was concerned, and it was followed up by one of my favorites in the collection. And the final story, the title story: a gorgeous portrait with all the humor and nuance established by what precedes it.
1089457
An excellent collection of diverse writings on film, from theory to industry anecdote. I haven't read it all so can't pass judgment on the overall editorial work, but some of my favorite reference sources for critical writing have come from this book. If you think and write about film, this should be on your shelf.
3862054
In this eclectic volume of materials culled from digital and print publications, you will find short snippets of prose and poetry, as well as full blown journalistic articles, fiction pieces, and graphic novellas.

The subject matters range from musings about life's silliness (for example, reportings on fast-food-related crimes and an adult woman who sued her alma mater for not giving her an education that could land her a job), to reflections on the costs of war, capitalism, oppression, and poverty, to questions about the meaning of identity and freedom, and poignant accounts of children coming to grips with the passing of a parent.

The featured authors range from up-and-coming ones like Lille Carre and Rana Dasgupta to well-known writers like Kurt Vonnegut.

The jumble of themes and the slight preponderance of entries dealing with "serious" subject matters such as war, death, oppression, and poverty may not make for a relaxed reading for some readers, but if you're willing to venture out of your comfort zone a little bit, you'll find that there are some real gems in this collection worth discovering, for they'll make you sit up and take notice of their authors' fresh or offbeat takes on and reactions to an event or human condition.

My favorite gem from this anthology, for example, is Bryan Furuness' "Man of Steel", a poignant account of a boy's attempt to reimagining how different things might have been if only he'd been able to use his "super powers" to "save" his mother, and how his father tried to help him come to grips with their loss.
3852131
I bought this in order to complete what I believe is a five volume set.  Each volume contains articles which interest me as a collector.  Together, they offer a wide range of articles with important references in either footnotes or at the back of the volume.  As the authors die, these writings become significant sources of insight and perception from an earlier generation of collectors.
2061890
A fine collection of well-curated, very short stories. The flow of what could have been quite a disparate set of voices was maintained by a good editorial eye. It's nice to see flash fiction given its due. I particularly liked the really short ones, the ones that got across a whole lot by giving a vivid slice rather than trying to cram a huge amount into a little space. The two Youngs (Keith and Mike) made an impression with swift, concise strokes. There are sports stories, alt-universe stories, future stories, detective stories, writers-getting-killed stories. A (little) something for everyone.
4013666
With most scholarly periodicals now digitized and searchable through JSTOR and Project Muse, collections like these risk becoming dinosaurs and--or rather, unnecessary. Not so with this collection. The articles are of course diverse and thought-provoking (especially when read alongside other Ives scholarship), especially cogent walk-through of Ives' un-summarizable political beliefs and how they play out in his wartime works. But where this collection really shines is in the excellent primary sources appended to the back of the collection, giving a more-or-less thorough-going account of Ives' contemporaneous reception and saving the casual researcher hours spent paging through musty old periodicals to find a single citation. The generous selections from Ives' letters whet the appetite as well and draw connections between Ives and the American musical avant-garde more effectively than secondary scholarship on the same topic. I picked this up in a used book store about a year ago, and while it shouldn't be your first Ives book, it is a valuable companion to the many Ives bios and studies.
3856343
Perhaps a biased reviewer, as I have a poem appearing in this collection, but I feel any reader will be well rewarded by the beauty and variety of the poems found here--all in some way exploring the idea of "Kindness" and yet all so varied and individual in style and meaning. A rich and lovely collection.
139239
Amazing collection of his works, and at a very good price. It definitely was not a paperback, but a hardback which for me is not a setback at all. It is a large book, probably best for coffee tables if you just want a fun art book. I love flipping through it and seeing his many works. Also the cover looks different, so overall, I feel like the cover pictured may just be a random photo. Anywho, enjoy the art of Lam.
4225524
This collection is excellent! I find it informative and engaging, and it's full of historical references and lovely prose. The essays flow well together but aren't so similar that I get bored. They vary in length in a way that makes the book easy to pick up or put down when I'm busy or only want to read for a short while. I teach English at a university and even considered teaching an essay from this collection. Elena Passarello will be speaking as a visiting writer at our university and I've got tons of questions about her research and process. If you enjoy essayists, you'll certainly enjoy this interrogation of sound, history, and human nature. This is NOT simply a book of essays, but a book of hybrid essays which are engaging, well-grouped, and thought-provoking. I haven't quite finished this collection, but I've included it in the reading list for my master's thesis.

The book itself has a pleasing heft and a shine to the cover. The pages are thick and excellent in quality, and the inner pages touching the front and back cover are both embossed.
2791936
I love the concept of this collection - short stories inspired by famous works of art - and found most of the stories quite imaginative and satisfying.  The collection is diverse and fairly even.  In some cases, the historical piece of art itself is an element of the story, while in others the subject matter of the piece serves as a springboard for the story.  It all comes together as an enjoyable and creative collection that will appeal to art aficionados and literary aficionados at the same time.  A fine collection of modern short fiction assembled around a fascinating theme.
4942651
I love the variety and unusual objects included in this excellent collection. Highly recommended!
It's particularly helpful to be able to use the items individually, and to have them organized into samplers already.