Autumn is finally here. Fresh fall foliage and a lil’ nip in the air provides for a primo reading atmosphere, and today’s Literary Gallery is sure give you something to leaf through. We caught up with logo-, biblio- and oeno-phile Jamise Harper for some of her favorite reads paired with prints. 

If you’re a regular reader of our newsletter, then you know we’ll be sharing a fresh batch of poetry and art pairings every Saturday in April—our toast to the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month. You can check out last weekend’s matchmaking over on the blog, and don’t miss our next set, dropping in 48 hours. Which brings us to today’s word-nerd treat! A very special installment of our Literary Gallery series, curated by the President and Executive...

Raise your hand if you miss travel as much as we do. It’s exactly that unsatisfied wanderlust that inspired us to reach out to travel editor, award-winning writer, and longtime 20x200 collector Tracey Minkin to curate an extra special edition of Literary Gallery. Per usual, these book and art pairings are presented without comment, so their compatibility speaks for itself, but they’re also aligned along a travel theme. Whether drawing on overt or subtle synchronicity, Minkin matched lit...

Our inner word nerds are rejoicing: today’s new Literary Gallery art + book matchmaking comes by way of wit-packing writer, critic, editor, and woman of many words Lizzie Skurnick. Skurnick’s writing has appeared in tons of publications—take this recent piece in The New York Times for a taste. You might know her name from her former New York Times Magazine feature “That Should Be a Word”, offering pointed, savvy, and supremely satisfying neologisms to help navigate the nuisances and neuroses of modern life. The...

We’ve got a special readerly treat today: a new installment in our Literary Gallery series, in which writer, cultural critic, author, and brain-we’d-like-to-be-inside Rebecca Carroll curates 10 totally inspired art + book pairings.

Know some kiddos who could use a little screen-free indoor entertainment? We love legos, pillow forts, and messy art projects as much as the next person (probably more, tbh) but we’re particularly fond of activities that require zero cleanup. Enter: children’s books! Ok sure, maybe keeping the kids occupied with books isn’t a novel idea (see what we did there?), but one can never have enough reading recs. So voila! Our very own abbreviated list of children’s...

Who could use more reading material? You know, the deeply satisfying, totally transportive, crucially non-news-related kind. Us. We could. And if, like us, your attention span is also riding the struggle bus these days, our newest Literary Gallery is the perfect bite-sized infusion of bookish brilliance. Nothing’s more life-affirming on a Monday than the promise of some excellent reading and ogleable art in your future.

Weekends are prime time for the more involved undertakings on the to do list—painting the bathroom, meal planning, pondering the future of humanity, etc. When you’re mulling over the Great Unknown it helps to know a guy. That guy is Fred Scharmen: designer, researcher, author, and professor of architecture and urban design. Scharmen’s out-of-this-world field of expertise? Theoretical future worlds, how architects represent them, and who they’d hypothetically home—the sorts of speculative endeavors beyond the...