[STEAL THIS IDEA] Talking Books

One time in college, I got drunk and went to the library's Biology section and pulled out creepy and inappropriate titles and left them on tables so everyone could see them.  I thought that prominently displaying titles such as The Breathless Orgasm (HOW??!) and What's Going on Down There? was totally hi-larious, and knew that it would piss of that bitch librarian who was my mortal enemy at the time (how does a librarian become your mortal enemy?  Try not paying to use the copy machine about 700 times and see what happens).

But artist Nina Katchadourian elevates this douchey thomfoolery to an art form, with her Sorted Books Project.  Essentially, she takes books and arranges them so that the titles on their spines make for a conversation or commentary.  

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