Buzz Spector is an academic artist whose media primarily engages with artists’ bookmaking and the use of text within a wide range of physical applications. Buzzwords: interviews with Buzz Spectorinvites the reader into a conversation between Spector and Sally Alatalo, an artist and writer whose convergence of the two practices provides ample room for distinguishing methods of discovery, challenges, and ubiquitous experiences of those who dive into one or more creative praxis at a time. Alatalo provided a sophisticated formal mode to the publication, designing its front cover with embossed type and a richly textured paperback bookboard.

Unorthodox writing exercises provide brief respites to the discussion within the book, while underscoring each authors’ attachment to the constant questioning of conventions within the fields of writing and publishing.