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Other titles in the P.S. series:

  1. 1421: The Year China Discovered America
  2. 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
  3. 26a
  4. 86'd
  5. A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life
  6. A Common Pornography: A Memoir
  7. A Computer Called Leo
  8. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
  9. A Day and a Night and a Day
  10. A Death in Belmont
  11. A Father's Law
  12. A Golden Age
  13. A Life Full of Holes
  14. A Perfectly Good Family
  15. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
  16. A Secret Alchemy
  17. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
  18. A Ship Made of Paper
  19. A Storm in the Blood
  20. A Ticket to Ride
  21. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
  22. Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette
  23. Accidentally on Purpose: The True Tale of a Happy Single Mother
  24. Adverbs
  25. Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer
  26. Alexander and Alestria
  27. Amberville
  28. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
  29. American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
  30. Anansi Boys: A Novel
  31. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement
  32. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
  33. April 1865: The Month That Saved America
  34. April Fool's Day
  35. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
  36. Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works
  37. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
  38. Ask the Dust
  39. Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad
  40. Assorted Fire Events: Stories
  41. Astonishing Splashes of Colour
  42. Augustine: A New Biography
  43. Back to Wando Passo
  44. Bad Monkeys
  45. Beasts of No Nation
  46. Beet
  47. Being Written
  48. Bel Canto
  49. Bell Jar
  50. Betsy and the Great World and Betsy's Wedding
  51. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
  52. Black Boy
  53. Black Boy
  54. Black Girl/White Girl
  55. Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power/The Color Curtain/And White, Man, Listen!
  56. Blind Faith
  57. Blonde
  58. Blue Angel
  59. Bodies in Motion: Stories
  60. Bonjour Tristesse
  61. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
  62. Boy Still Missing
  63. Brave New World
  64. Brave New World Revisited
  65. Brazzaville Beach
  66. Brida
  67. Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories
  68. Bright Shiny Morning
  69. Broken
  70. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness
  71. Callisto
  72. Candy Everybody Wants
  73. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
  74. Checker and the Derailleurs
  75. Chicago
  76. Choosing My Religion: A Memoir of a Family Beyond Belief
  77. Chump Change
  78. Citizen Vince
  79. City of Refuge
  80. City of the Beasts
  81. Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back
  82. Confessions of a Falling Woman: And Other Stories
  83. Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper
  84. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
  85. Continental Drift
  86. COOP: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg
  87. Coraline
  88. Coronado: Stories
  89. Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
  90. Crooked Little Vein
  91. Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
  92. Daughter of Fortune
  93. Daughter of Fortune
  94. Daughters of the North
  95. De Niro's Game
  96. Death Be Not Proud
  97. Democracy in America
  98. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States
  99. Dog Years: A Memoir
  100. Down and Out on Murder Mile
  101. Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
  102. East Wind, Rain
  103. Eight Men: Short Stories (96 Edition)
  104. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
  105. Empress
  106. Enemy Women
  107. Every Visible Thing
  108. Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever: Stories
  109. Eyeless in Gaza
  110. Families of the Vine: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France
  111. Family Planning
  112. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  113. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  114. Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
  115. First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood
  116. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
  117. Five Quarters of the Orange
  118. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  119. Forest of the Pygmies
  120. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
  121. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
  122. Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
  123. Further Adventures
  124. Futureproof
  125. Game Control
  126. Gates of Eden
  127. Genealogy:
  128. Gentlemen and Players: A Novel
  129. Girl Trouble: Stories
  130. Girlfriend in a Coma
  131. Go with Me
  132. Gods and Monsters: A Novel
  133. Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bib
  134. Good Family
  135. Good-Bye and Amen
  136. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World
  137. Haweswater
  138. Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain
  139. Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself
  140. Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
  141. History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
  142. Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art
  143. House Made of Dawn
  144. House Rules: A Memoir
  145. House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live
  146. How to Paint a Dead Man
  147. I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
  148. I Know This Much Is True
  149. I Love You, Beth Cooper
  150. I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir
  151. I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison
  152. If Today Be Sweet
  153. If You Follow Me
  154. Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas
  155. In His Sights: One Woman's Stalking Nightmare
  156. Ines of My Soul
  157. Inside Out Girl
  158. Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
  159. Island
  160. It's All Right Now
  161. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
  162. Jonah's Gourd Vine
  163. Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed
  164. Just Say NU: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)
  165. Kapitoil
  166. Karma and Other Stories
  167. Keeping Faith
  168. Keeping Faith
  169. Kill Your Friends
  170. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
  171. Kockroach
  172. Land of the Blind
  173. Lapham Rising
  174. Last One In
  175. Lean on Pete
  176. Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories
  177. Leaving Cecil Street
  178. Leeway Cottage
  179. Legend of a Suicide: Stories
  180. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
  181. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
  182. Light of Day
  183. Little Star of Bela Lua: Stories from Brazil
  184. Little, Big
  185. London Born
  186. Lost City Radio
  187. Lost Girls and Love Hotels
  188. Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
  189. Love Falls
  190. Love Medicine (93 Edition)
  191. Love Medicine
  192. Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
  193. Lucky Girls: Stories
  194. Lullabies for Little Criminals
  195. Manhood for Amateurs
  196. Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
  197. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
  198. Michael Tolliver Lives
  199. Microserfs
  200. Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
  201. Mistress of the Vatican: The True Story of Olimpia Maidalchini: The Secret Female Pope
  202. Montenegro
  203. Mooch
  204. Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong
  205. More of This World or Maybe Another
  206. Moses, Man of the Mountain
  207. Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
  208. Mules and Men
  209. My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family
  210. My Goat Ate Its Own Legs: Tales for Adults
  211. My Lives: A Memoir
  212. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
  213. My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike
  214. Names on a Map
  215. Native Son
  216. Natural Flights of the Human Mind
  217. Northline (Harper Perennial P.S.)
  218. Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
  219. Now You See Him
  220. On Boxing
  221. On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
  222. One Big Damn Puzzler
  223. One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War
  224. Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
  225. Out Backward
  226. Outer Banks: Three Early Novels
  227. Over Tumbled Graves
  228. Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
  229. Pagan Spain
  230. Pain Killers
  231. Papillon
  232. Paula: A Memoir
  233. Pelican Blood
  234. Polly
  235. Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire
  236. Pop Salvation
  237. Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
  238. Portrait in Sepia
  239. Postcards from a Dead Girl
  240. Pound for Pound
  241. Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
  242. Profiles in Courage
  243. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
  244. Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories
  245. Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System
  246. Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai
  247. Right of Thirst
  248. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
  249. Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
  250. Run
  251. Sacred Games: A Novel
  252. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
  253. Secrets of the Sea
  254. Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar
  255. Seraph on the Suwanee
  256. Serena
  257. Serpent Box
  258. Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
  259. Shadow of the Silk Road
  260. Shakespeare's Wife
  261. Sharp Teeth
  262. She Was
  263. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
  264. Sights Unseen
  265. Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy
  266. Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
  267. So Big
  268. Soul Catcher
  269. Spike: An Intimate Memoir
  270. Spitting Off Tall Buildings
  271. Stardust
  272. Stormy Weather
  273. Strange Skies
  274. Summer People
  275. Sunday Money (06 Edition)
  276. Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
  277. Suspension
  278. Taft
  279. Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
  280. Tales of the City
  281. Taming the Beast
  282. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
  283. Ten Storey Love Song
  284. Tete-A-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
  285. Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm
  286. The Amateurs
  287. The Art of Loving
  288. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  289. The Autumn of the Patriarch
  290. The Ballad of West Tenth Street: A Novel
  291. The Bean Trees
  292. The Beet Queen
  293. The Believers
  294. The Bell Jar
  295. The Best People in the World
  296. The Bingo Palace
  297. The Birth House
  298. The Black Death
  299. The Black Tower
  300. The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood
  301. The Book Borrower
  302. The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
  303. The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind -- and Almost Found Myself -- on the Pacific Crest Trail
  304. The Camel Bookmobile
  305. The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank
  306. The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters
  307. The Collected Poems
  308. The Complete Stories
  309. The Condition
  310. The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
  311. The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
  312. The Death of Vishnu
  313. The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation
  314. The Devils of Loudun
  315. The Dissident
  316. The Dolphin People
  317. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
  318. The Drowned Life
  319. The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, JR., and the Reign of American Taste
  320. The Enthusiast
  321. The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
  322. The Falls
  323. The Family on Paradise Pier
  324. The Female Eunuch
  325. The Female of the Species
  326. The Fifth Mountain
  327. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
  328. The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America
  329. The Genius and the Goddess
  330. The Giant's House: A Romance
  331. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients
  332. The Girl from Charnelle
  333. The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s
  334. The Girl with No Shadow
  335. The Good Fight: Why Liberals---And Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
  336. The Good Rat: A True Story
  337. The Gospel of Food: Why We Should Stop Worrying and Enjoy What We Eat
  338. The Grass Is Singing
  339. The Gravedigger's Daughter
  340. The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
  341. The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
  342. The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, 1918-1956
  343. The Hour I First Believed
  344. The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
  345. The House on Fortune Street
  346. The Infinite Plan
  347. The Jewel Trader of Pegu
  348. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
  349. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
  350. The Last Season
  351. The Last Witchfinder: A Novel
  352. The Life of Andrew Jackson
  353. The Lightning Keeper
  354. The Lost Heart of Asia
  355. The Madonnas of Leningrad
  356. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
  357. The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine
  358. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
  359. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
  360. The Matchmaker of Perigord
  361. The Mathematics of Love
  362. The Monkey Wrench Gang
  363. The Moonflower Vine
  364. The Motel Life: A Novel
  365. The Night Listener
  366. The Odyssey of Homer
  367. The Outcast
  368. The Outlander
  369. The Outsider
  370. The Oysters of Locmariaquer
  371. The Pact: A Love Story
  372. The Pact: A Love Story
  373. The Painted Drum
  374. The Pale Blue Eye
  375. The Patron Saint of Liars
  376. The Perennial Philosophy
  377. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
  378. The Philosopher's Apprentice
  379. The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse
  380. The Plague of Doves
  381. The Poisonwood Bible
  382. The Post-Birthday World
  383. The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions
  384. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  385. The Queen of Palmyra
  386. The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008
  387. The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
  388. The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
  389. The Reserve
  390. The Scenic Route
  391. The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories
  392. The Secret Sisters
  393. The Septembers of Shiraz
  394. The Seven Days of Peter Crumb
  395. The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: A Memoir
  396. The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
  397. The Sound of Butterflies
  398. The Space between Us
  399. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
  400. The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice
  401. The Stylist
  402. The Sum of Our Days
  403. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
  404. The Tattooed Girl
  405. The Testing of Luther Albright
  406. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
  407. The Torn Skirt
  408. The Weight of Heaven
  409. The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
  410. The Winner Stands Alone
  411. The Winter of the World
  412. The Witch of Portobello
  413. The Wrecking Ball
  414. The Writing on My Forehead
  415. The Yacoubian Building
  416. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  417. The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession
  418. The Zero
  419. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  420. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
  421. Traveling Light
  422. Truck: A Love Story
  423. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories
  424. Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money
  425. Two Truths and a Lie
  426. Ugly Man: Stories
  427. Uncle Tom's Children (08 Edition)
  428. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
  429. Under the Volcano
  430. Unless
  431. Veronika Decides to Die
  432. Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption
  433. Vinegar Hill
  434. Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip -- Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
  435. Wasted
  436. Water from the Well: Women of the Bible: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
  437. We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
  438. We Disappear
  439. We Need to Talk about Kevin
  440. Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
  441. White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
  442. Who by Fire
  443. Why I'm Like This: True Stories
  444. Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
  445. Willing
  446. Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
  447. Wonderful World
  448. Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert
  449. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
  450. Zombie
  451. Zorro: A Novel

The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys"

by Chip Kidd

The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys" Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be — well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can't resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty — chiefly, his own. Written in sharp, witty prose and peppered with absorbing ruminations on graphic design, The Learners again shows that Chip Kidd's writing is every bit as original, stunning, and memorable as his celebrated book jackets.

Synopsis:

From the famed graphic designer and author of "The Cheese Monkeys" comes a remarkable new novel that shows his writing is, once again, every bit as original, stunning, and memorable as his celebrated book jackets.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780061673245
Subtitle:
The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys"
Author:
Kidd, Chip
Author:
by Chip Kidd
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Subject:
Literary
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
P.S.
Publication Date:
February 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
258
Dimensions:
7.50x5.14x.70 in. .44 lbs.

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