Clancy asks, “What books are on your coffee table?”
Left to right: magazines, mostly Atlantic and Harper’s. Then The Times Atlas of World History and Past Worlds: The Collins Atlas of Archaeology, which feature enormously cool maps of things like “The Mongol Empire 1206 to 1405” and “Trade and Empire in Africa 1500 to 1800” and “The Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire 1800 to 1923”: these books, with their visual representations of data and textual commentary, are things one can pick up and get lost in for hours at a time. Below them, volumes 5-9 of Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For. (Best. comic. Evar.) And, at far right, Worldchanging, a wonderful book of ideas for promoting sustainability and being green.
Coffee Table Books
Alison Bechdel fans, unite! It truly is the best comic evar, isn’t it?
Dude that Worldchanging book looks like it rocks. Who was thoughtful enough to give you something so essential?
Before you got out the camera, were they really laid out in that symmetrical-but-used-looking way, interspersed neatly with drink coasters? 😉
Of course not! I, uh, tidied up a bit.
And dusted.