Here I catalogue the items I’ve suggested that TPL buy. (88 titles, 662 pieces.)
| Title | Copies | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Ænima | 4 | Tool |
| Age of Consent, The | 5 | Jimmy Somerville |
| Anatomy of Type | 2 | Inexplicably omitted |
| Another Earth | 40 | |
| Arn, the Knight Templar: The Complete Series | 16 | Tricky one. The Arn the library already has is only one part of a full TV miniseries |
| Badge of Pride | 6 | |
| Banksy: You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat | 4 | |
| Beautiful Thing | 11 | |
| Beefcake | 11 | |
| Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride | 8 | Director was a dick about it, but it magically appeared months later |
| Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss | 13 | |
| Black Christmas | 14 | …and then I saw it on TV |
| Black Dynamite | 7 | |
| Borderland | 4 | |
| Burnt Money | 11 | |
| Carnal Knowledge | 16 | |
| Capturing Love: The Art of Lesbian & Gay Wedding Photography | 4 | |
| Chuck & Buck | 18 | |
| The City & the City | 9 | Audio CD |
| Code Unknown | 7 | |
| Control | 15 | |
| Cut the World | 5 | Antony and the Johnsons |
| Design Forward | 2 | |
| Design Research Unit: 1942–72 | 2 | |
| Designing Web Accessibility for a Beautiful Web | 6 | Possibly at least two other instructional DVDs for Web developers coming |
| DV8 Physical Theatre: Three Ballets | 2 | You don’t know dance till you’ve watched DV8 |
| Edge, The | 15 | |
| El Bulli: Cooking in Progress | 5 | |
| First Ladies of Disco: 32 Stars Discuss the Era and Their Singing Careers | 4 | |
| France orange mécanique, la | 2 | |
| Gay Press, Gay Power | 2 | May have come in via ARP |
| Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design | 17 | |
| Goin’ Down the Road/Down the Road Again | 9 | |
| Harvey Milk Interviews, The: In His Own Words | 7 | May have come in via ARP |
| Heaven or Las Vegas | 4 | Cocteau Twins |
| Heavy Metal Parking Lot | 9 | Yes |
| He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices | 2 | |
| Hit So Hard | 5 | |
| I Lego NY | 10 | By the delightful Christoph Niemann |
| Illusionist, The | 40 | |
| Immunity | 4 | |
| Jeffrey | 13 | |
| Journal, Vols. 1–4 | 3 | Fabrice Neaud. Yes, three copies of four volumes. One book contains two volumes. That means – yes again – Yorkville gets one copy each and that is it |
| Last Call at Maud’s | 6 | |
| Men on Strike | 4 | |
| Metal Evolution | 6 | Turning a no into a yes for this TV series |
| Life at Home in the 21st Century | 2 | Honourable Mention Fuck-You: Despite New Yorker coverage, this took two submissions. Result? 1 TRL, 1 Jones |
| Life of Reilly | 10 | Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. CHARLES NELSON REILLY |
| Lullabies to Violane, Vol. 1 | 4 | Cocteau Twins |
| Lullabies to Violane, Vol. 2 | 4 | Cocteau Twins |
| Managing Oneself | 5 | TPL included a nice note with this one pointing me to other books by Drucker |
| Metal Evolution | 6 | |
| MP3: The Meaning of a Format | 2 | |
| My Struggle | 5 | |
| Paragraph 175 | 5 | Deemed impossible to order commercially, then magically showed up months later |
| Paul Rand: Conversations with Students | 2 | |
| Permanent emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security | 2 | |
| Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop | 6 | |
| Playlist: The Very Best of the The | 6 | |
| Please | 8 | I’m not sure I requested this one, but still |
| Positive Pictures: A Gay History | 2 | |
| Pour une critique du design graphique : 18 essais | 2 | |
| Presentation Zen | 5 | Related Peachpit Web-design videos stubbornly not ordered |
| Private Romeo | 11 | Weak, as it turned out, but so are and do a lot of things |
| Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History | 4 | |
| The Qatsi Trilogy | 11 | Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, |
| Quadrophenia | 8 | Come on: A library isn’t a library without Quadrophenia |
| Read My Lips | 4 | Jimmy Somerville |
| Silent Shout | 5 | Strangely, we had the subsequent album by the Knife |
| Shotgun Stories | 12 | Submitted now nearly two years ago, I quite forget what the deal is |
| Shut Up and Play the Hits | 7 | |
| Soul Mining | 4 | |
| Stars & Topsoil | 5 | |
| Stop Making Sense | 5 | |
| Tales of the City: 20th Anniversary Edition | 15 | |
| That Man: Peter Berlin | 4 | |
| Tiny Furniture | 40 | Yes, you can blame me for this one |
| Tom Bianchi: Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975–1983 | 2 | |
| Type Navigator: The Independent Foundries Handbook | 1 | |
| Unicode Explained | 5 | Finally. This one took multiple submissions to overcome the nonsensical objection that the book, from 2006, was outdated |
| Unicode Standard, Version 6.2 | [TK; possibly 1] | |
| Undertow | 4 | Tool |
| Urbania | 9 | Another classic gay movie |
| Very Best of Bronski Beat and the Communards, The | 5 | Jimmy Somerville |
| We Are Anonymous | 13 | |
| Women in Graphic Design, 1890–2012 | 1 |
Other useful items
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The easiest way to keep track of suggested items turned out to be via Amazon wishlists. Not everything is on there.
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Last year’s list: Suggestions (2012) ☛
Updated: 2014.01.09
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