Like a lot of hand-wringers, I’ve been lately wringing my hands over the future of the publishing industry. This interview with Richard Nash of Soft Skull has both soothed my worries and stoked some ideas I’ve been thinking about the future of the arts.
What I’ve been thinking is this: As giant media companies [...]
If you are in DC this weekend, you have to go see Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power at the Corcoran before it closes this Sunday, the 25. It’s well worth the two-for-one $14 admission fee.
The exhibit is organized chronologically and excludes the nearly surreal Avedon portraits I’m familiar with. Instead, focusing on artists, activists, [...]
GoodReads is a fairly excellent social networking site, as far as social networking sites go. It’s much closer to hanging out in an actual bookstore than visiting an online bookstore like Amazon, so that’s nice.
But it has the same faults as any other social network:
How can Twilight be both one of the “Best Books [...]