Alice Michel is the pseudonym used by the unknown author of Degas and His Model. Jeff Nagy is a translator, critic, and historian of technology based in Palo Alto, California. His research focuses on networks pre- and post-Internet and the development of digital labor.
"""amusing, memorable books""--Jonathon Sturgeon ""Artnet"" ""The books in the series seem designed to slip into your back pocket - slim, spartan, and compact, sporting uniform covers consisting solely of typeface in black or white, with a matching horizontal bar across the top, against a solid color.""--Thomas Micchelli ""Hyperallergic"" ""Degas and His Model, for a short book (just 58 pages), is rich in incident and secondary characters...""--Thomas Micchelli ""Hyperallergic"" ""[Degas and His Model] is a curious text to evaluate, the more so when rendered into American English, with Degas as 'cranky and demanding old buzzard', an 'old nutjob', and so on.""--Julian Barnes ""London Review of Books"""