“A repository of observations, anecdotes, obsessions, jokes, and koan-like stories, John Cage’s Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) is an assessment of the times in which he lived as well as his often uncanny portents about the world we live in now. This chance-operation-determined masterpiece is also an oblique but indelible portrait of one of the most influential figures of the 20th-century American avant-garde, now in a new, expanded paperback edition with previously unpublished manuscript pages by Cage.

I’ve always thought of the Printed Matter book fairs as where the renegades, contrarians, and visionaries live. Here you find books by artists who take on more intimate, small-scale, sometimes ephemeral forms, as well as the publishers who are finding ways to realize those works, put them in the world, and build an audience for them. This year I’m particularly excited to see what excellent company Siglio will keep in the Dome!”