Coleen Baik
Coleen Baik is an artist and designer. She writes about work in progress in her newsletter, The Line Between. Coleen was part of the early design team at Twitter, an advisor at Medium, and most recently, principal designer at Sequoia Capital. She has worked as a communications director for a peace mission in North Korea, and as a farmhand in rural Italy. Her latest animated short is “Tuscany.”
If you could recommend 3 books to anyone, what would they be?
What are you reading now?
Paris is a party, Paris is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim, and Mrs. March by Virginia Feito.
Next up, in no particular order:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
A Farewell to Gabo & Mercedes by Rodrigo Garcia
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
What is your favourite bookstore or library?
Found a new book? Read it with Coleen's playlist.
dlp 1.1 (of William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops) is a wordless, haunting track over an hour long. I recently discovered that it has a dark provenance—the last hour of daylight over New York City on September 11, 2001, filmed by the composer—but it’s music I’ve long found comfort in while immersing myself in a book.