After the past few months of going on and on about our special Tenth Anniversary Issue (“Issue X”), this email is the last call to pre-order! We will continue taking orders through this Sunday (the 27th), and after that, the final count goes to the printer. We will not keep this title in stock into the future – we are only printing enough copies to fulfill pre-orders (plus a few extra to fulfill lost or damaged shipments).
So, as you’ve already heard us explain, Issue X is standalone title, not included as part of an M&T subscription. This momentous 248-page edition is being published in addition to this year’s regular two issues. Domestic subscribers are eligible for free shipping when they use their Issue X discount code (if you don’t have that code on hand, reply to this email and Grace will set you up).
Are you as excited as we are about this? Check out the massive table of contents below:
“Foreword” Joshua A. Klein
I: Tempus Fugit
“Fitted Up: Recreating the Parson’s Wardrobe” Joshua A. Klein
“The Transition of Power” Michael Updegraff
“Secondary Concerns: Highlights from the Yale Furniture Study”
“In Defense of ‘Mechanicks & Ignorant Wretches’: A Life in Woodworking” Steve Latta
II: Carpe Diem
“Precision & its Discontents: The Manifesto Revisited” Joshua A. Klein
“The State of the Craft: Woodworking in 2025” Sally Bernstein and Joel Moskowitz
“Time Well Spent” George Sawyer
“Contagious Curiosity: Handcraft for Building Relationships” Anne Briggs
“Some Assembly Required” Glenn Adamson
“Ever a Tradesman” Kenneth Schwarz
“Tolle Lege: 50 Books for Disenchanted Woodworkers” Joshua A. Klein
III: Semper Porro
“Good Sense” A Year’s Correspondence with Wendell Berry
“Finding Wholeness: Slöjd & the AI Era” with Jögge Sundqvist
To secure your own copy of our special edition, this is your last opportunity.
You can order yours here.
Thank you for your support!
Those of you who have been around here a while know that we’re a small-scale team of friends who are passionate about craft – just the kind of crew that independent publishing needs to thrive in this crazy market. Mike, Grace, and I are so grateful for your support throughout our first decade of publishing. And, we have no intention to begin slowing down our efforts – there’s a lot more to come in the next years.
Any generation can find handcraft to be a bottomless source of inspiration for living well, but our current cultural moment is in desperate need of such grounded wisdom. We will not thrive by technologizing our lives away. We need more sleeves rolled up and busted knuckles. We need a little more craft in the world.
So, thank you again for supporting our efforts to celebrate this kind of timeless craftsmanship. Every single order you make propels our work forward. Issue X is underway. You will not be disappointed.
-Joshua