The Happy Reader – Issue 15

The Happy Reader Issue 15 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Beaches, books and juniper berries: this season’s cover star Sarah Jessica Parker is photographed by Roe Etheridge in Amaganesett, Long Island. Our Book of the Season, JAPANESE GHOST STORIES, is centre of gravity to a series of hallucinatory artworks; correspondents around the world compile an obsessive yet fragmentary portrait of the book’s odd author, Lafcadio Hearn. Contributors include Lieko Shiga, John Self, Travis Elborough, Bess Lovejoy and Moeko Fujii.

The magazine is centred on the concept of ‘precious print’, as embodied by Penguin Classics and Fantastic Man. It explores the myriad advantages of the printed word and image: beautiful typography, high dwell time, the matte charm of ink on paper, the calming luxury of being ‘offline’. The magazine is a design object in and of itself.

The Happy Reader is a unique magazine about reading for anyone who wishes to stay inspired, informed and entertained. With beautiful typography, the magazine is a design object which celebrates the pure pleasure of reading and the calming luxury of being offline. Each issue is split into two halves. The first half is an in-depth interview with a book fanatic and the second half gets under the skin of one classic work of literature. The concept of the magazine is excitingly simple: the first half is a long-form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one Penguin Classics title from an array of surprising and invigorating angles, through fashion, art, lifestyle, history, film and more. The Happy Reader is published four times per year. The magazine is centred on the concept of ‘precious print’, as embodied by Penguin Classics and Fantastic Man. It explores the myriad advantages of the printed word and image: beautiful typography, high dwell time, the matte charm of ink on paper, the calming luxury of being ‘offline’. The magazine is a design object in and of itself.

Content

PART 1

• To be seen
• Snippets
• The Interview : SARAH JESSICA PARKER by Paul Flynn —‘I will do anything to not finish a book.’
• Staff picks

PART 2

• Apparitions by Lieko Shiga—Phantasmagorical photographs
• Born by Seb Emina —Lefkada, Ionia
• Abandoned by John Self —Dublin, Ireland
• Hired by Travis Elborough —Cincinnati, Ohio
• Possessed by Bess Lovejoy —New Orleans, Louisiana
• Resurrected by Moeko Fujii —Tokyo, Japan
• Letters
• An addictive tragedy
• Issue overview

Details: The Happy Reader – Issue 15

64 pages, 24.5 × 17 cm, Softcover