Chapters 19 & 20
Beauty and the Book

Beauty and the Book is the only section in Goodbye Gutenberg that is written in all black and white. You can download the entire section in pdf format. (coming soon)

In Beauty and the Book, you will discover:

• Techniques St. Augustine used to convert the Irish to Christianity… techniques still in use today
• The irony behind bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen’s success… revealed here for the first time
• The driving force behind Dicken’s bestselling books
• The novelist who in 20 years will be more studied than Joyce, Kafka, Dickens or Dostoevski
• Why picture books were considered “light literature” in the 19 th century
• How visual texts can present truths that purely nonvisual texts cannot
• The three colors of ink – other than black – that Faulkner wanted to use for the words of his first masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury
• The mysterious lure of the Book of Kells… and why visitors still flock to see it
• Why most books today do not hold a design copyright… and how this will change in the coming years
• The unique achievements of graphic novelists such as Art Spiegelman and Marjani Satrapi… plus the name of a new kind of novel, revealed here for the first time
• Why black and white books have failed to captivate younger readers
• Why the end of Gutenberg style books marks the beginning of our Renaissance