The Working Day
Guides on attention, meetings, correspondence, and the small architecture of an ordinary workweek.
See the guides →An editorial imprint
An imprint for the useful book.
General Information publishes concise reference guides — on the household, the workday, and the civic hour — written for adults and edited like books.
What we publish
Four shelves. One editor. A small, plainly-written catalog.
Every title lives on one of four shelves. Each shelf is edited by the same hand, in the same voice, at the same length — short enough to finish in an evening, long enough to keep.
The Household
Reference reading for the running of a home — money, meals, maintenance, quiet Sundays.
See the guides →The Civic Hour
Short plain-English primers on the paperwork of adult life: taxes, tenancy, small courts, letters to write.
See the guides →The Reading Room
Essays and long notes — the sort of writing you keep in a folder and return to.
See the guides →From the catalog
Four short books, kept on the front table.
A selection from the current list. Every guide is a PDF and an ePub — sold once, kept forever, no subscription and no newsletter.
The Working Day
A Plain Guide to the Working Week
MMXXVI · GI · 001
The Working Day
A Plain Guide to the Working Week
Attention, calendars, and the shape of five days
The Household
The Household Ledger
MMXXVI · GI · 002
The Household
The Household Ledger
Money, meals, and maintenance — a keeping book
The Civic Hour
Letters You May Need to Write
MMXXVI · GI · 003
The Civic Hour
Letters You May Need to Write
Complaint, notice, condolence, and thanks
The Reading Room
Notes on Reading Slowly
MMXXVI · GI · 004
The Reading Room
Notes on Reading Slowly
An essay in six sittings
How we work
Every title reads three times.
- One editor reads every manuscript at least three times.
- Manuscripts sit for a week between the second and third read; nothing goes to print in a hurry.
- Each guide is edited to a target length — if a chapter can be cut in half, it usually is.
For libraries
Reading-room copies for public and campus libraries.
General Information licenses the full catalog to public library systems and academic reading rooms — with a plain one-page agreement and pricing that fits the collection.
Reading rooms & campus libraries →Reference reading for the working adult. — General Information
Get in touch
Write to us.
General enquiries reach the desk at hello@lovegivers.org. Manuscripts, licensing, and press notes go to editor@lovegivers.org. Replies are slow because every message is read by the editor.