The canon of popular American literature not only unified the culture, it helped create the national narrative of individualism and self-reliance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-07-16 14:03:05 UTC ]
The founding art director of Walker Books, Amelia Edwards, who helped create Five Minutes’ Peace and Owl Babies, has died. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Controversial writer and journalist known for Fatal Vision and The Selling of the PresidentIs a journalist "a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse?" That was the question asked by Janet Malcolm in her... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Most efforts to explain design at Apple end up reducing a complex 37–year history to bromides about simplicity, quality, and perfection––as if those were ambitions unique to Apple alone. So Fast Company set out to remedy that deficiency through an oral history of Apple's design, a decoding of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]