In 1996, Heather McHugh turned me on to Tom Phillips' A Humument [+ book version].
For a long time I thought this was the most fascinating reuse of a text. But maybe I wasn't paying attention? Or it's become incredibly cool—just lately?
...Because:
Last year Eric Lorberer of Rain Taxi turned me on to the work of Rosamond Purcell, specifically: Bookworm.
Then Kottke linked to the work of Thomas Allen early last year [ + more] [ + Chip Kidd's uses].
And yesterday I was blown away by the Boing Boing link to Brian Dettmer's Book Autopsies [+ gallery show].
Finally, lest I forget: there were Douglas Coupland's fantastic (arc)hives, made from chewed up copies of his own work.
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