The crowd-filled rooms at Printed Matter‘s New York Art Book Fair are intense — not to mention stifling, as there’s no AC on most of the floors in the ancient PS1 building. Kids can’t get enough of the event; the singular (and we thought obscure) fair has grown into an entire week of spin-off pop-ups and events — a sweet miracle cure for the cultural hangover culled from the bender that is Fashion Week.

Of late, books have become a specific kind of magical commodity; like art, they’re a physical, non-digital object that has the potential to contain multitudes. The by-hand aesthetic is the earthy reply to the pervasive flawlessness of digitally-produced imagery, and it’s a hell of a lot more fun to look at. To inform your book and zine hoarding habit, here are some of WW’s faves from last week.

PETRA COLLINS' BARON MAGAZINE AT DASHWOOD BOOKS

Why be you, when you could be me?

Petra Collins’ latest project for Baron Magazine is a trippy low-fi journey through a psychosexual dollhouse that is both very real and very unreal, where the house is the one she actually grew up in and the doll is herself. Using silicone molds of her body created by artist Sarah Sitkin, she has made herself into a life-size Barbie of sorts. Her disparate parts on display against a bleak suburban backdrop are both self portraits and still lifes simultaneously. It’s like an Instagram version of reality, zoomed out, sliced up, frozen, and waiting for likes. Get it at Dashwood Books.

ARTISTS JASON WRIGHT (AKA LIVER IDEAS) AND B. THOM STEVENSON LAUNCH A NEW SODA: MIRACLE SELTZER

Do you believe in Miracles?

Artists B. Thom Stevenson and Jason Wright do. Sloganeering is a way of life for them, so it makes sense to combine their intense brands of loud proclamations to create a unique product, where the marketing becomes a kind of cheeky performance piece in and of itself. The product? Miracle Seltzer. With vast and decidedly unsubstantiated claims for so simple a thing as seltzer water, it self-consciously exists at the axis of spirituality and science, product and artwork, exhibit and store, nonsense and wonder. It’s uncanny how effective their marketing is—something about that Miracle Seltzer seems like a really good idea. Catch the bubbles at everyone’s favorite cool-kid store, Token.

KRAFTWERK EXHIBITION AND BOOK RELEASE AT MAST BOOKS CURATED BY TOBY MOTT AND CULTURAL TRAFFIC

Kraftwerk was a weird little band in 1970s Germany whose innovations with “machine music” would lead to electronic dance music as we now know it. The exhibition includes ephemera from the band’s career, including musical “toys” that helped mold their revolutionary sound. They’re one of those ur-creators that had a huge influence the world over without necessarily knowing it or receiving wide credit. It’s cultural archeology at its best, though you can’t help but wonder how Detroit will feel about being robbed of their inventor-of-techno status. Let the battle begin.

MANNERISM NYC TEMPORARY ART-BOOK SHOP AT PROCELL AND CURATED BY GOOD TASTE AND CLASSIC PARIS

Those who wanted the alt experience, but didn’t feel like trekking all the way to Long Island City, found it at the downtown vintage palace, Procell. Here they hosted a pop-up art book bazaar called Mannerism, organized and curated by the good people behind the art show series Good Taste and the Paris-based bookshop and publisher Classic Paris. The event was the like the punky kid brother to the gargantuan art book fair, with posters, books, and zines from international artists, galleries and publishers. It’s a little less pomp and a lot more circumstance—no one would have judged you for skipping the crowds in Queens, and your zine collection will have thanked you.