Zoe Guttenplan
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Writer, editor, book designer | Literary Review zoeguttenplan.com
“…hundreds of tiny letters could then be cast in a fast-cooling lead alloy – rows of ‘O’s like eyes and ‘I’s like soldiers, perfectly identical, ready to be printed.” I wrote about the history of fonts, and who gets to say they designed a typeface, for
@litreview.bsky.social
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Zoe Guttenplan - Font of Information
Zoe Guttenplan: Font of Information - Type Designers of the Twentieth Century by David Jury
https://literaryreview.co.uk/font-of-information
5 months ago
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I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
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6 months ago
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Here I am in
@nybooks.com
talking about mass transit, book design, Mrs Dalloway
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Colors and Shapes | Zoe Guttenplan, Daniel Drake
“The best design is one that is clearly and immediately comprehensible but also notably beautiful.”
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/06/14/colors-and-shapes-zoe-guttenplan/
6 months ago
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Manchester University Press
7 months ago
A brilliant review by
@zoeguttenplan.bsky.social
for
@litreview.bsky.social
, including a nice mention of
@markhussey.bsky.social
's new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel', which is "full of delightful details" about the modernist masterpiece. Full review linked below 👇
#booksky
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There are 1,400+ newly collected Virginia Woolf letters. Some of them are peak Woolf cattiness, some are heartbreaking. I wrote about this incredible feat of scholarship and indispensable resource in
@litreview.bsky.social
literaryreview.co.uk/to-the-postbox
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Zoe Guttenplan - To the Postbox
Zoe Guttenplan: To the Postbox - The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf by Stephen Barkway & Stuart N Clarke (edd)
https://literaryreview.co.uk/to-the-postbox
7 months ago
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Apollo
7 months ago
‘When Sarah Bernhardt called to request a new advertisement for her production of Gismonda, Mucha was in the right place at the right time.’ – Zoe Guttenplan on the life and work of Alphonse Mucha
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The sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha | Apollo Magazine
In his posters and illustrations, the art nouveau artist fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge, writes Zoe Guttenplan
https://buff.ly/CJPkFZM
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Happy centenary to Mrs. Dalloway! I listened to the leaden circles dissolve on my way to work this morning and smiled.
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7 months ago
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Longreads
8 months ago
"It’s not quite as sexy as the 1972 original, but it is a lot more functional, even as it reproduces some of the design features for which Vignelli was criticized back then." —@zoeguttenplan.bsky.social on NYC subway maps for
@nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Spaghetti Underground | Zoe Guttenplan
Massimo Vignelli wore a chalk-stripe suit. He stood on the stage of Cooper Union’s Great Hall, one hand holding a microphone with a long, snaking cord,
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/04/18/spaghetti-underground-subway-maps/
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Apollo
8 months ago
In his posters and illustrations, the art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge, writes Zoe Guttenplan
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The sensational designs of Alphonse Mucha | Apollo Magazine
In his posters and illustrations, the art nouveau artist fused Slavic motifs with Japanese influences to create a style that was truly cutting-edge, writes Zoe Guttenplan
https://buff.ly/UolFgzV
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Stephen Bush
8 months ago
Terrific, terrific piece. (I would nerdishly defend the MTA spending money on the contactless payments as an absolute necessity, though.)
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I’m in
@nybooks.com
online today, writing about the new MTA Subway Diagram — and the long history of failed subway maps that came before.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Spaghetti Underground | Zoe Guttenplan
Massimo Vignelli wore a chalk-stripe suit. He stood on the stage of Cooper Union’s Great Hall, one hand holding a microphone with a long, snaking cord,
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/04/18/spaghetti-underground-subway-maps/
8 months ago
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Lovely to see
#Perfection
by Vincenzo Latronico, translated by Sophie Hughes, shortlisted for the
#InternationalBookerPrize
(
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
) Here’s my review from March:
literaryreview.co.uk/hashtag-living
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Zoe Guttenplan - Hashtag Living
Zoe Guttenplan: Hashtag Living - Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (Translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes)
https://literaryreview.co.uk/hashtag-living
9 months ago
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I wrote about the new Sayaka Murata novel for
@litreview.bsky.social
. The piece comes with a pretty good headline and a Charlotte Perkins Gilman shout out.
literaryreview.co.uk/no-sex-pleas...
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Zoe Guttenplan - No Sex Please, We’re Married
Zoe Guttenplan: No Sex Please, We’re Married - Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata (Translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
https://literaryreview.co.uk/no-sex-please-were-married
9 months ago
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What a privilege to design the cover of the forthcoming
@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
edition of Mrs. Dalloway. Thinking of rebirth, renewal etc on this surprisingly sunny day here in London, 84 years after Virginia's death
www.nyrb.com/products/mrs...
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Literary Review
10 months ago
Out now! Literary Review's March 2025 issue, featuring Peter Marshall on the Peasants' War Jonathan Sumption on free speech
@mariamargaronis.bsky.social
on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Owen Matthews on the Baltic Stephen Smith on Gilbert & George and much, much more:
literaryreview.co.uk
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Literary Review - For People Who Devour Books
In the Current Issue: Peter Marshall on the Peasants' War * Philip Snow on Hiroshima * Jonathan Sumption on free speech * Stephen Smith on Gilbert & George * Maria Margaronis on Chimamanda Ngozi Adich...
https://literaryreview.co.uk
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I wrote about New York — its legends, its underbelly — for
@thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.co.uk/world/cities...
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A Town Without Time, Gay Talese; New York Sketches, E.B White | Review
When the late city edition of the New York Times hit the pavement on April 8, 1972, it was following in the final footsteps of “Crazy Joe” Gallo, the mob boss whose austere gaze met readers’ eyes from...
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/world/cities/a-town-without-time-gay-talese-new-york-sketches-e-b-white-review-zoe-guttenplan
10 months ago
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I love libraries, so I was excited to read Murakami’s latest about a DREAM library. Here are my thoughts:
literaryreview.co.uk/shadow-lives
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Zoe Guttenplan - Shadow Lives
Zoe Guttenplan: Shadow Lives - The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)
https://literaryreview.co.uk/shadow-lives
about 1 year ago
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No one tells you that a large portion of your time in archives will be spent wondering what the words ‘ongyny’ ‘suprenes’ or ‘snoroings’ would be if you could only read your subject’s handwriting
about 1 year ago
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Heading across the pond to spend three weeks in the
@nypl.bsky.social
special collections. Wonder if they’ll let me take Woolf’s walking stick for a spin around the room.
about 1 year ago
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