Jay McInerny – Model Behaviour
Seth Godin – The Dip
Lee Gutkind – The Best Creative Non Fiction
John Updike – Rabbit Redux
Jim Krane – City of Gold
Thomas Mann – Death in Venice
Seth Godin – Free Prize Inside
Neil Steinberg – Drunkard
David Deida – The Way of the Superior Man
Steve Siebold – 177 Mental Toughness Secrets
Michael Lewis – The New New Thing
Jack London – John Barleycorn
Bruno Munari – Design As Art

Spent last week on a cruise – that stopped at Cannes, Livorno and Rome – before returning to Barcelona. Will be writing a feature for Open Skies for our water-themed issue in August. In other news, some new projects set to be  announced soon. Also check out a review in The National of The Dubai 50.

We came second in a poll of the world’s best inflight magazines conducted by CNN Go, the travel arm of CNN. Not bad, but of course, second is nowhere.

Yes, we are up at the top of the Burj Khalifa for the Dubai issue of Open Skies. We have created a mobile office over floors 152, 153, and 154 – the highest office space in the world. We are interviewing some of the more interesting residents of the city, blogging, tweeting and filming our experiences there. We are also hosting a cool party next week with Emirates and Emaar. All good fun, and it looks like the issue is shaping up very well. Follow our antics here and here.

John Updike – Rabbit Run
Seth Godin – Small is the New Big
Jean-Paul Sartre – Nausea
George Plimpton – Paper Lion
Stewart Pinkerton – The Fall of the House of Forbes
Masha Gessen – The Man Without A Face

Note: The Nausea cover was used as an inspiration for an article opener (below) in the April issue of Open Skies about the man-eating lions of Tsavo. Thanks to Roui Francisco for the execution.

The polar opposite of the Forbes brothers is Seth Godin and I half-way through another of his books – Small is the New Big. A collection of his blog posts, it’s brilliant stuff, as he continues to adapt to the changing economy. Follow his blog. If the Forbes brothers had taken some of his advice, they would probably be in a much better situation today.

Speaking of the changing economy, The Dubai 50 is out on Kindle here and here. Soon to be on all e-reader devices.

The April ‘Animals’ issue of Open Skies is on board now. Probably the most innovative cover we have done, as we got it shot by Aled Lewis, whose style is unique. Next month: The Underground issue.

It’s here – check it out in all good retailers next week, or this weekend at the Jashanmal pop-up store at Art Dubai.

Edit: Here is me talking about the book on Business Breakfast on Dubai Eye. And here is a feature on the book in Gulf Today. More coverage to come.

Derek Sivers – Anything You Want
Mushashi Miyamoto – The Book of Five Rings
Steve Coll – On The Grand Trunk Road
Brian K. Vaughn – The Last Man
Martin Amis – The War Against Cliché
Nick Hornby – Fever Pitch
Christopher Kremmer – The Carpet Wars
Efraim Halevy – Man In The Shadows
Herman Melville – The Happy Failure
WJ Rorabaugh – The Alcoholic Republic
Johnathan Ames, Dean Haspnel – The Alcoholic
Alan Partridge – I, Partridge
Peter Richardson – A Bomb in Every Issue