“Multiple paper sizes and stocks bound together with a spiral wire and wrapped between thick chipboard covers.” So reads the highly utilitarian description of Ben Jones’ new book in its accompanying press release, but it’s also as good a definition of the different incarnations of “manliness”—the purported subject of the volume—as anything to be found on its carnation pink and lime green pages.
Maura Lucking
Maura Lucking is a historian and writer interested in the intersections of architecture, design, and object cultures. She holds an MA in Art History, Criticism and Theory from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently based in Los Angeles, where she works in independent publishing and contributes regularly to Rhizome and KCRW's DnA. She's also on Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr — you know, all those places.
