Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur » behind the scenes

Back from whence they came

Quinn — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:48:20 +0000

This morning I left a graffiti mini-card on a number of the desks in the stacks, study carrels, and eraser-holders on the A-level. It was a strange moment, leaving reminders of things long-erased on the A-level; it was even stranger to leave a card with an image of a piece of graffiti… under that piece of graffiti.

If you came across this site from one of those cards, welcome!

Books are here!

Quinn — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:54 +0000

As if it wasn’t cluttered enough with luggage and the piles of books that are always there, my living room is now covered with the 5 boxes from Lulu containing 10 copies of Crescat Graffiti each. If you’d like a signed copy (that comes with a button!), here’s the book order page (courtesy of a long wait at Boston’s Logan Airport this evening). If you’re in Chicago and want to get one in person with cash, just drop me an e-mail at quinn – at – crescatgraffiti.com.

First book proof

Quinn — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:46:57 +0000

The proof copy of Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the University of Chicago came in the mail yesterday. On the whole, I’m really pleased with it. There’s a few changes that I need to make in the text (spelling “acknowledgments” consistently, fixing page references that changed after I wrote the text, adding a few more explanatory notes, aligning my headers consistently) but nothing major.

In the “Time” section, though, a couple of the photographs fell victim to the shadows the A-level lights cast on the whiteboards, so I’m replacing a spread there with one in the “Motivation” section. Sadly, among the victims is one of my favorite pieces of graffiti– a timeline for becoming a math genius in 13 hours.

At the moment, I’m mostly done with the revisions, and figure I’ll order the new proof before the end of the weekend. At that rate, I’ll get the revised proof by the end of next week. If everything looks good I’ll place a bulk order (for selling signed copies through this site) and get it submitted to Amazon. On that timetable, I figure it’ll be published sometime around the week of November 16th.