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Most books and booklets are available in the (physical) museum shop.
Museum Catalogs
Published by the Zymoglyphic Museum Press
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The Zymoglyphic Museum: A Guide to the Exhibits (2020)
The museum in book form! Third edtion, lavishly illustrated in full color, 8.5x11 inches, 200+ pages! Standard paperback or deluxe hardcover edition! Purchase paperback at Powell's City of Books or bookshop.org Both versions also available through Amazon Download free PDF here (260 MB) |
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Views of the Zymoglyphic Region (2011) Scenes of daily life in the cities, mountain villages, woods, and jungles of the region as seen during the Age of Wonder, rendered using collages from old engravings See samples here Blog entry Purchase here |
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The Zymoglyphic Anthology (2024) An assemblage of documents from and about the museum. Second Edition!
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Sketches of the Zymoglyphic Region (2010) Curator’s vision of the Zymoglyphic region channeled through the medium of spontaneous drawing! Samples here Purchase here |
Books by Jason Squamata
Jason was the museum's official Scribe. He chronicled both his dream world and the Zymoglyphic region. He went native at some point in the region and never returned. Books published by the Zymoglyphic Museum Press.
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Hotel Zymoglyphic (2019) Illustrated surrealist poem cycle inspired by a visit to the Zymoglyphic region by the Orakuloid himself, Jason Squamata. For aeons, league after league of bold explorers and reckless lunatics have abandoned the fallen world of matter in search of immaterial territories and unknown pleasures, always promising to return to us with their treasures. But they never come back. All they leave behind is baffling forensic evidence, like this shapeshifting poetical transmission from a lost beyond... Contains coded incantations for the summoning of densely tentacled dream lovers and the sublimation of one’s own skin into fictoplasmic dreaming. -- The author Details here, including an audio version of the book Purchase at Bookshop.org, Powell's Books, Amazon, and other sites |
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Oneiric Memoir: The Dream Diaries of Jason Squamata (2020) Freud famously termed dreams the royal road to the unconscious. Jason transmutes the raw narrative of his nightly excursions into literary gems, seamlessly blending prose and poetry. Oneiropathic Dysmorphia. It happens every day. Consult this case history, dense with signs, warnings, and recipes...A book to help you touch base with Inner Space and find the fire these times require. Up close and personal, through the prism of my dreaming. Funny. Sad. Sleazy. Astonishing. And all points in between. -- The author Details here Purchase at Bookshop.org, Powell's Books, Amazon, and other sites |
Museum as Muse
Books resulting from art projects inspired by the museum
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Spirits Under Glass: Pinhole Photos from the Zymoglyphic Museum taken with the Zymo 127 camera Judith Hoffman, Steam Iron Press, 2014 For the Zymo 127 project, Judith constructed a special pinhole camera that could fit inside the dioramas and capture their inner light. The camera uses 127 film inside a modified Altoids tin. The pinhole technique has great depth of field and creates a dreamy effect. The photographs were compiled into a one-of-a-kind artist's book titled Spirits Under Glass. This trade edition documents the artist's book and includes 56 photographs made by the pinhole camera in the museum in its original location in San Mateo, Calif. Available here More about the project here |
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ZMOV VAINC Lyndsay Hogland, 2024 A delightfully inscrutable guide to the Zmov Vainc project, part of the museum's 2023 residency program. Available here More about the project here |
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Color Studies of the Zymoglyphic Region Coleman Stevenson, The Dark Exact, 2014 Decaying stratifications of pigment and self-entwined poetic text reflect artist Coleman Stevenson's interpretation of the museum's exhibits. Monoprints and corresponding text depict the museum contents through abstract color studies and show the beautiful decay of all things over time, a main tenet of Zymoglyphic theory. Available here More about the project here |
Booklets
Available individually in print at the museum, or as free PDF download. All are included in The Zymoglyphic Anthology. |
The Zymoglyphic Way: A Manifesto (2012) A rousing single-sheet zinelet to inspire disciples of The Way Download PDF |
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Creating and Curating Your Own Personal Museum (2013) A handy booklet for those who are plagued with accumulated detritus and in need of guidance toward creating a meaningful arrangement Download PDF |
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The Positively Unknown: A Kid's Guide to the Zymoglyphic Museum (2019) A seven-year-old's perspective on the museum, an interactive guide for kids of all ages. Download PDF |
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Literary Guest Book (2012) Two-sheet zine "The Zymoglyphic Museum has existed, at least in spirit, for centuries. It has been fortunate to have been visited by several important literary figures, although they have come away with very different impressions." Download PDF |
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Tour the Museum with Joyce and Re-joyce! (2012) Possibly the most obscure and solipsistic story ever written. It assumes the reader's familiarity with both the most obscure and solipsistic novel ever written (James Joyce's Finnegans Wake) and the author's own alter ego, the Zymoglyphic Museum. Fortunately, the author has graciously provided a set of explanatory footnotes! Download PDF |