Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery

How it reads

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery is narrative nonfiction (presentation design guide, specifically), and its dominant mood is hopeful. Whatever it puts its people through, it believes things can get better. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in several locations, in the present day, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are art and creativity, identity and class and society. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 229 pages it's a quick read. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.