The Cheese Monkeys

by Chip Kidd

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2002-07-04
ISBN : 9780743217552
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (217 users)

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Download or read book The Cheese Monkeys written by Chip Kidd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious debut novel that could only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man. "Um...so what exactly is a Cheese Monkey?" Good question. But strictly off-limits. We can tell you that The Cheese Monkeys is a witty and effervescent coming-of-age novel about headless waterfowl, fake plastic babies, and the basic tenets of graphic design. It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the trained eye and skillful hand. Our narrator at State U is determined to major in Art, and after several risible false starts, he ends up by accident in a new class called "Introduction to Graphic Design." Art 127 is taught by the enigmatic Winter Sorbeck, professor and guru (think Gary Cooper crossed with Darth Vader) -- equal parts genius, seducer, and sadist. Sorbeck is a bitter yet fascinating man whose assignments hurl his charges through a gauntlet of humiliation and heartache, shame and triumph, ego-bashing and enlightenment. Along the way, friendships are made and undone, jealousies simmer, the sexual tango weaves and dips. As readers, we too are under Sorbeck's bizarre spell, spurred on by his demand: "Show me something I've never seen before and will never be able to forget-if you can do that, you can do anything." By the end of The Cheese Monkeys, the members of Art 127 will never see the world the same way again. And, thanks to Chip Kidd's insights into the secrets of graphic design, neither will you. "Not only has Chip Kidd altered the face of publishing with his revolutionary book jackets, he has also written a really good debut novel (the bastard), and the big surprise is that the edgy, postmodern graphic designer who radicalized the way we look at the front of books is a pleasing, elegant traditionalist between covers. The Cheese Monkeys is a touching throwback: The story of an innocent young man's education, it has suspense, likable and vivid characters, a romantic, pitch-perfect re-creation of late '50s behavior and slang, and an effortlessly sustained comic charm throughout (and without curdling into cuteness -- not a simple achievement). I also can't remember the last time I read what is ostensibly a 'college' novel that actually taught me something." -- Bret Easton Ellis

The Cheese Monkeys

by Chip Kidd

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-12-26
ISBN : 1847396879
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (847 users)

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Download or read book The Cheese Monkeys written by Chip Kidd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Show me something I've never seen before and will never be able to forget - if you can do that, you can do anything.' It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the trained eye and skilful hand. Our narrator at State University is determined to major in Art, and after several risible false starts, he accidentally ends up in a new class: 'Introduction to Graphic Design'. His teacher is the enigmatic Winter Sorbeck, equal parts genius, seducer and sadist. Sorbeck is a bitter yet fascinating man whose assignments hurl his charges through a gauntlet of humiliation and heartache, shame and triumph, ego-bashing and enlightenment. Along the way, friendships are made and undone, jealousies simmer, and the sexual tango weaves and dips. By the end of their 'Introduction to Graphic Design', Sorbeck's students will never see the world in the same way again. And, with Chip Kidd's insights into the secrets of graphic design, neither will you.

The Learners

by Chip Kidd

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-02-19
ISBN : 1416564888
Pages : 272 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (416 users)

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Download or read book The Learners written by Chip Kidd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be -- well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can't resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty -- chiefly, his own. Written in sharp, witty prose and peppered with absorbing ruminations on graphic design, The Learners again shows that Chip Kidd's writing is every bit as original, stunning, and memorable as his celebrated book jackets.

Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates

by Sean Cullen

Publisher : Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2007-03-13
ISBN : 014318105X
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (143 users)

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Download or read book Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates written by Sean Cullen and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Hamish X Orphan, Enigma, and Enemy to Pirates Everywhere The mysterious Hamish X is the scourge of the Orphan Disposal Agency—Agents Candy and Sweet can’t seem to find a facility that can hold him. After arriving at the Windcity Orphanage, where the children are forced to earn their keep making stinky blue cheese, Hamish X is soon planning his escape along with new friends Parveen and Mimi. But his plans are put on hold when the factory is suddenly attacked by a fierce gang of pirates, led by the dreaded Cheesebeard of Snow Monkey Island. In order to save the other orphans, Hamish X, Mimi, and Parveen must embark upon an epic adventure across the Arctic and take on the cheese-obsessed pirates by themselves. The inimitable Seán Cullen’s first book in his new series for children is dramatic, action-packed, and, of course, completely hilarious.

The Cheese Monkeys

by Chip Kidd

Publisher : Harper Perennial
Release Date : 2002-09-03
ISBN : 9780060507404
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (57 users)

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Download or read book The Cheese Monkeys written by Chip Kidd and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Chrichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college novel that takes place over a tightly written two semesters. The book is set in the late 1950s at State U, where the young narrator, has decided to major in art, much to his parents’ dismay. It is an autobiographical, coming-of-age novel which tells universally appealing stories of maturity, finding a calling in life, and being inspired by a loving, demanding, and highly eccentric teacher.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works

by Geoff Hamilton

Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 143812970X
Pages : 433 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Works written by Geoff Hamilton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the best writers and works of the current English-speaking literary world.

Cheese monkeys

by Chip Kidd

Publisher : Inculte éditions
Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 9782916940595
Pages : 235 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (94 users)

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Download or read book Cheese monkeys written by Chip Kidd and published by Inculte éditions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designer star, artiste salué par ses contemporains (Ellis, Inerney, Ellroy, Saunders, etc.), Chip Kidd a révolutionné la façon de penser le design imprimé. Dans Cheese Monkeys, son premier roman, il plonge en adolescence et retrace les aventures loufoques d'un alter ego de papier. Artiste en devenir, il découvre les affres et les émois d'une école d'art, à l'époque où les ordinateurs n'existaient pas encore et où les maîtres en esthétique disposaient d'une aura confinant au divin. Winter Sorbeck est l'un de ces pygmalions à la fois séducteur et sadique avec ses étudiants. Dans cette campus nove/ hilarante et caustique, Chip Kidd livre une satire jubilatoire, sous les auspices de Martin Amis, Philip Roth, ou du Ghost World de Daniel Clowes.

Make Something Up

by Chuck Palahniuk

Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2015-05-26
ISBN : 0385538065
Pages : 336 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (385 users)

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Download or read book Make Something Up written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in "Tunnel of Love," a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come

Five Minute Stories

by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Publisher :
Release Date : 1895
ISBN :
Pages : 238 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (33 users)

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Download or read book Five Minute Stories written by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, poems, and songs for children.

Five Minute Stories

by Laura Richards

Publisher : Litres
Release Date : 2018-12-20
ISBN : 504054359X
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Five Minute Stories written by Laura Richards and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sew Cute and Collectible Sock Monkeys

by Dee Lindner

Publisher : Creative Publishing international
Release Date : 2015-06-01
ISBN : 1589238664
Pages : 171 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (589 users)

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Download or read book Sew Cute and Collectible Sock Monkeys written by Dee Lindner and published by Creative Publishing international. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sew Cute and Collectible Sock Monkeys, over 200 colorful photographs of cute, collectible, charming, funny, and funky sock monkeys will put readers in stitches. This craft book by award-winning photographer, Dee Lindner, known as the Sock Monkey Lady(R), highlights the humor behind the history and crafting of sock monkeys. Filled with tips and quips, Sew Cute and Collectible Sock Monkeys highlights detailed techniques to create and dress one's own hand-made sock monkey. Fun ideas to bring your sock monkey to life come together amidst endearing sock monkey photographs of 'action art,' included to give inspiration to rock, sock, cut, and sew! Whether you're creating a sock monkey to gift, collect, or sell, this clear and comprehensive book is a must have reference. So grab a pair of socks and get ready to create wonderful memories!

Monkey See, Monkey Murder

by Jack Bates

Publisher : Untreed Reads
Release Date : 2011-12-03
ISBN : 1611872030
Pages : 42 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (611 users)

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Download or read book Monkey See, Monkey Murder written by Jack Bates and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hack Ward thought he had found a niche market for his skills as a private investigator when Hollywood came to Detroit. When washed up director Will Peyton gets pegged to direct a low-brow family comedy starring a chimp and a perpetual bad-girl pop star, Hack gets brought in by Peyton to keep an eye on starlet Haley Goslin. It's not because Peyton is concerned about her image; it's because Peyton is in love with the younger woman and doesn't want her fooling around on him. It isn't long, however, before events on the set start turning sinister. Hack is on hand the day the chimp has a psychotic episode and attacks Haley. Saving her life sets off a chain of events that bring Hack and Haley closer together and puts them in more and more danger. On the morning she gets called into the set to shoot some additional footage, they have no idea they are getting called into a trap. When it comes to murder, which is the more dangerous animal? Chimp ... or man?

Library Journal

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Publisher :
Release Date : 2001
ISBN :
Pages : 1578 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clever Monkey: A Folktale from West Africa

by Rob Cleveland

Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Release Date : 2017-12-13
ISBN : 1684440068
Pages : 34 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (684 users)

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Download or read book Clever Monkey: A Folktale from West Africa written by Rob Cleveland and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When two greedy jungle cats discover a large piece of cheese, they can't decide how to divide it fairly. The clever monkey comes to their rescue. Or so they think. After reading this trickster tale from West Africa, you will think twice before asking a monkey for help.

The Advocate

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Publisher :
Release Date : 2004-01-20
ISBN :
Pages : 96 pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

The Graphic Novel

by Jan Baetens

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
ISBN : 1107025230
Pages : 297 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (17 users)

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Download or read book The Graphic Novel written by Jan Baetens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction provides a historical overview of the graphic novel, with a strong focus on its international significance.

Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities

by Barbara F. Tobolowsky

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-27
ISBN : 1137570040
Pages : 207 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (137 users)

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Download or read book Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities written by Barbara F. Tobolowsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores popular media depictions of higher education from an American perspective. Each chapter in this book investigates the portrait of higher education in an exciting array of media including novels, television, film, comic books, and video games revealing the ways anti-intellectualism manifests through time. Examining a wide range of narratives, the authors in this book provide incisive commentary on the role of the university as well as the life of students, faculty, and staff in fictional college campuses.