Inside out

M. John Harrison picks Dizzies fave Scott Bradfield's The Secret Life of Houses as one of his top ten books linking "the inside to the outside, the scientific to the personal, the individual to the universal."

Also available now: The "shocking conclusion" to Hua's Eddie Gong saga.

Gong show—Type slowly—Museum pieces

What happened to Eddie Gong? Find out here.

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Slate asks writers about their favorite fonts. Most seem to like Courier (which I pretty much never use—too ugly!). (Via Jenny D)

Andrew Vachss says:

I write everything in Courier 12, because I write for publication, not pleasure.

Hmm. We like Luc Sante's take on Courier New better:

I . . . like the fact that in Courier each letter is accorded the exact same amount of space, which I think is only fair to the i and the l.

Speaking of Sante—his mysterious exhibit, The Museum of Crime and The Museum of God, is worth checking out.

Asian Americanists, listen up

Hua had a good day in the archives—from a 1955 article by one Eddie Gong:

Picture, if you can, a young man who is carefree and sentimental, who loves to talk to all kinds of people; a guy who has an average frame of about 5 feet 10 and who weighs 160 pounds...



The title? "I Want to Marry an American Girl." (Cue Tom Petty.) The coverline: "Must I Marry a Chinese Girl?"