Blog Tag - Bookshelf

Bookshelf: Julien Tang, Publisher of Laji Magazine and Co-curator of Zajia Lab
Submitted on Jan 07, 2013
The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is a Sun Wukong comic book published in Taiwan in the 1980s with traditional characters. If you...
Bookshelf: Stefen Chow, Photographer and Founder of Beijing Creatives
Submitted on Dec 04, 2012
The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich. It is a comprehensive book on art history and how...
Bookshelf: Zara Arshad, Founder, Design-China.org
Submitted on Sep 25, 2012
My favorite book from childhood is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Who can resist the notion of a chocolate factory with square...
Bookshelf: Vicky Mohieddeen, Founder, Electric Shadows
Submitted on Jul 15, 2012
The books on my shelf with the most sentimental value are the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. They remind me of home, partly because they’re...
Bookshelf: Mark Huetsch, Co-owner, Pie House
Submitted on May 28, 2012
The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. One of the main characters is a space pioneer who...
Bookshelf: Luka Lesson, Australian Poetry Slam Champion
Submitted on Mar 12, 2012
The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is The Road to Rembetika by Gail Holst. It's about the history of a certain style of popular...
Bookshelf: Seth Grossman, Co-owner, Home Plate Bar-B-Que
Submitted on Feb 13, 2012
I am a photographer so all of the books I really love the most are my photographers’ monographs that are personally signed to me. (Those are all...
Bookshelf: Peter Sallade, Beijing International Movie Festival Organizer
Submitted on Dec 26, 2011
The books on my shelf with the most sentimental value are New Mutants #1-100, The Neverending Story, The Stand, The Coming of the King by Nikolai...
Bookshelf: Michael Pettis, Founder, D-22
Submitted on Nov 24, 2011
The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is probably the very tattered copy of Selden Rodman’s 100 Modern Poems, which I picked up in...
Bookshelf: Jeremy Goldkorn, Founder of Danwei.com (and editor of TBJ's very first issue)
Submitted on Oct 31, 2011
The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is a beautiful old illustrated hardback copy of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. My uncle...
Bookshelf: Chef Brandon Trowbridge of Nola
The chef whose bookshelf I'd like a peek at is Perry Hoffman, my chef in Yountville and the youngest Michelin recipient in the US. He must have...
What's on Your Bookshelf? Philip Tinari of LEAP Magazine
Submitted on Jun 19, 2011
Philip Tinari, Editor-in-chief, LEAP Magazine The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is our first volume of LEAP – six issues and 1,...
What's on Your Bookshelf? Meg Maggio of Pekin Fine Arts
Submitted on Apr 15, 2011
Meg Maggio Director, Pékin Fine Arts The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is my Chinese-English dictionary: a big hardback one I...
Emma Donoghue's Bookshelf
Submitted on Mar 08, 2011
Emma Donoghue's latest novel Room has been popping up on prestigious literary prize shortlists all around the world, like, oh, you know, the Man...