Reading Sideways Press is thrilled to be working with designer-athlete Manolo Pierson to publish his book, <Run_A_Way>.
This book is a running book like no other. Manolo, as designer-athlete, sought to capture the experience of running in the design itself. Sometimes we move fast; sometimes we move slow. This happens too when reading through the book which can feel ‘heavy’ but also ‘light’. It is both poetic and theoretical.
Lindsey A Freeman, author of Running, writes in the introduction: “Today it is easy to think that our bodies could hide in plainsight as images of themselves or dissolve into data without nuance. Luckily, this book that you are holding in your hand will counter these horrible thoughts. What began as a thesis in search of a method to use high-intensity running to develop a new mode of discernment resulted in a text that gracefully escapes all the concessions to the genre of triumphant running books. Manolo Pierson shows us running doesn’t need to be about numb productivity, it can be a counter-rhythm, if you let it.
In his pursuit of resonance, through and with running, Pierson demonstrates how we can replace the stark experience of accelerationism (following the sociologist Harmut Rosa) with a more expansive feeling of being in time. This doesn’t mean we don’t still want to go fast. It means constant tracking and data dumps don’t keep us going. Even a time, our best time, isn’t enough for us for long. We are in pursuit to not simply be measured.”
<Run_A_Way> will be published in late-2025.
The price of the book will be approximately 30euros + shipping
<Run_A_Way> will be published as a strictly limited edition. To reserve your copy, please fill out this Google form (name; email address; country; number of copies).
Please contact: [email protected] for further information.