A thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you rediscover your passion with “simple, low-stakes activities [that] can open up the world.”—The New York TimesWelcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen.Enter Rob Walker...

A Vintage Shorts selection.Becoming a first-class noticer is crucial to any creative process, but perhaps it is particularly crucial for a writer. In the era of white noise, when the ability to be present is often lost, Rob Walker’s provocations and exercises will enchant and delight, and help writers of all stripes develop an original point of view.Drawn from his gorgeous illustrated volume, The Art of Noticing, twenty selections ranging in scope from “Hunt for a ...

A light-hearted look at the Coronavirus Pandemic and its affects on the world. Limmericks of the Lockdown tells it how it is with the experience of each of us during the lockdown to stay safe, avoid the COVID-19 virus.

Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in unprecedented ways, in marketing campaigns for their favorites. Yes, rather than becoming immune to them, we are rapidly embracing brands. Profiling Timberland, American Apparel, P...

Unlock the secrets of the cognitive mind with "Think and Eat Yourself Smart," a compelling exploration into the nexus of neuroscience and nutrition. This book serves as your personal mentor in understanding how each bite can be a step towards a sharper, more vibrant mind. With a focus on brain health, it offers a treasure trove of gastronomic delights that are as pleasing to the palate as they are beneficial for your brain.Features:Cognitive Culinary Creati...

"Rob Walker has produced a delightful cross-genre melee ... sometimes bucolic, sometimes heartwarming and homespun and sometimes apocalyptic, but always engaging and thought- provoking, taking the reader into different times and places, always with an eye to opening perception." ~ Magdalena Ball, editor of 'Compulsive Reader' "Rob Walker reveals the breadth of his talents in this quirky collection of fiction, memoir and poetry. This is a book of journeys: on foot, bus, train and spaceship,...

Pointless, sporadic, and free ... and essential.The Letter From New Orleans — “pointless, sporadic, and free”— began as a bunch of emails to interested parties, from New Orleans. The book Letters From New Orleans, includes all the Letters, as well as additional material.Subjects covered in Letters From New Orleans include: Celebratory gunfire, rich people, religion, the riddle of race relations in our time, robots, fine dining, drunkenness...

OK, you asked for it, here we go (again) The long awaited and highly anticipated sequel; Black Cityll 2nd Hand Smoke!! For this project weve given you much more story. The plot thickens Follow Roc Allen on Assignment Outside of Black City Find out who gets hurt in the battle with Gogulock. Follow me as I take you deeper into my world and read on, as I introduce you to more characters and more Black City. Along with a great story we have (way) more graphics. Check out Ghetto Aggression Poet...

An imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life.Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen.Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing. This audiobook edition will spark your creativity--and most imp...

The New Yoga: From Cults and Dogma to Science and Sanity!Where did most of your yoga moves come from? A guru from the annals of Indian folklore? Or are those "thousand-year-old poses" really a twentieth century invention hidden behind a veil of tall stories? Were they based on movement science–or cooked-up creations with a big pinch of folklore? The New Yoga takes a brutally hard look at these critical questions. It proposes six radical steps to strip away the nonsense and provide ...

Using fascinating profiles of companies and products old and new, including Red Bull, the iPod, Timberland, and American Apparel, New York Times Consumed columnist Rob Walker demonstrates that modern consumers are likely to embrace marketing and use brands to craft and express their political, cultural, and even artistic identities. Combine this with marketers' new ability to blur the line between advertising, entertainment, and public space, and you have dramatically altered the ...

‘If Cliché is a democratically elected form of truth, then Rob Walker is sitting as an Independent and disrupting proceedings from the cross-benches. He’s been warned by the Speaker.’ – Mike Ladd (poet, founding presenter/producer of ABC RN’s Poetica)‘Rob Walker’s Original Clichés is a wry, sardonic, meta-poetic and often very funny exploration of politics, ageing, current affairs, fear, travel, human weaknesses, technology and much more. This is powerful poetry t...