If you change the way you assemble a book, "everything sparks some kind of curious sidebar".
So while Mr. Benn didn't set out to assemble a book 40 years later composed exclusively of Kodachrome work, it happened that that work made up the bulk of his best-preserved images.
Chef Deuki Hong, a Momofuku alum who has a restaurant in Manhattan's K-town, and food writer Matt Rodbard have woven together more than 100 recipes and many anecdotes, Q&A's and sidebars, to assemble a book that is as diverse and multifaceted as its subject.
This year, he assembled a book of speeches, letters and testimony documenting that effort.
She has assembled a book that reprints the last chapters of each of her other books, then offers a second, parallel-universe version of each ending.
In commemoration, Jay Kriegel, his former chief of staff, has assembled a book of recollections by friends and colleagues, from Robert Abrams to John E. Zuccotti.
An occasional eavesdropper on Dr. Peters's e-mail discussions, Dr. Silver is assembling a book of reminiscences from her coal-mine-family colleagues.
In his later years, he assembled a book of Biblical passages showing that his discoveries were a prelude to the Day of Judgment, and took to signing his name with an elaborate Christological cryptogram.
He assembled a book of sacred pieces that included this Vespers service and a six-voice Mass, and published them in Venice, with a dedication to Pope Paul V. In effect, the collection was a portfolio for prospective employers.
Lambert is a novelist, screenwriter and biographer who knows the contours of Old Hollywood intimately: He has written biographies of Nazimova and Norma Shearer, as well as assembled a book of perceptive conversations with the director George Cukor.
And now Tammaro was renting out one of his bedrooms, or perhaps the whole place (he couldn't quite seem to decide), so that, after a possible visit with his friend David Geffen in Malibu, he could spend a year in Sag Harbor assembling a book of his photographs.
