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The Book Bindery

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Description

Newly rewritten! Sarah Royal spent some time working in a Chicago book bindery. From the get-go, she dispels any of our illusions of book-making fantasy, It's a glorified Kinko's... and gives us a guided tour of her work and co-workers. It's funny--especially the snippets of dialog, and it's full of beautiful photos of the bindery. Sometimes the humor is at the expense of her co-workers, or those in the bindery's hilariously out-of-control neighborhood. So if you like stories about quirky employees interacting, or killing time on the clock, then this zine is for you!

Product Details

PublisherMicrocosm Publishing
Publish DateOctober 11, 2010
Pages96
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781934620847
Dimensions5.9 X 4.6 X 0.3 inches | 0.2 pounds

About the Author

Sarah Royal is a writer and coauthor of Creative Cursing and Creative Cussin'. She lives in Portland, Oregon and per her own website, sarahroyal.com, she is "torn between writing about doing cool shit and wanting to go do more cool shit to write about".

Reviews

If you associate things like 'soul-crushing' and 'menial' with what you do, you'll definitely appreciate this book. Somehow the author avoids coming across as a ghetto-tourist fascinated by the lives of the proletariat--it's the manipulative managers and company values that she understands to be the real adversary. It's a difficult balance to strike without patronizing the people who're stuck in these jobs, but given that the book is written from an inside-looking-out perspective it succeeds in creating a realistic looking snapshot of a lifestyle that is sadly becoming a daily reality for an increasing amount of people. - Riot

Continues in the long tradition of the irritable labor zine, with its laugh-out-loud tales of mischief, slacking off, stealing time, and sneaky insubordination. When she adds in the local color--tales of mobsters setting cars on fire in the neighborhood and nutbar naked dudes squatting the parking lot--it rounds everything out to a well-told and hearty tale of work, both familiar to anybody who's had a shitty job and quite unique. - Razorcake

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