American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence Agency Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which is basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore. (via)
Except that I received some of these for Christmas and used gift cards for the rest.
List
- It Chooses You by Miranda July
- Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
- Zazen by Vanessa Veselka
- American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Shopgirl by Steve Martin
- Swamplandia by Karen Russell
- A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles
- Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Grantland
A photo taken by Cecilia Majzoub in SF.
Currently listening and obsessing over.