William Strunk and EB White are to writing what the Duke of Windsor is to menswear: the undisputed gold standard of style. But did you know they could rap?
Category: Criticism
Pop Culture’s Effect on Society
Videogames, music, movies, TV: how can the things people engage in so closely and passionately have no influence on societies and how we think?
Beautiful Books: John Carrera’s ‘Pictorial Webster’s’
The Pictorial Webster’s is a masters class on bookmaking and proof that when we imprint our lives on books, they warp to our humanity.
Beautiful Books: Jamie Keenan’s ‘Lolita’
How do you design a cover for a book about a 12-year-old forced to wander the country and provide sexual companionship for a Frenchman in this 30s?
Words Are a Means to an End
Don’t let words get in the way of the story. You can’t have a whole team of MVPs fighting over the ball, they need to work together for the good of the team.
Imagination and the Value of Storytelling
As homo narrans, or ‘Storytelling People’, fiction and fantasy are like sandboxes for ideas. Our imaginations transform us in sub-creators.
It’s Not the World’s Fault You Wanted to Be an Artist
Being an artist is a choice and luxury. As Werner Herzog says, “it’s certainly not the world’s obligation to pay for your dreams.”
Make Your Writing ‘Irresistibly Concise’
In the documentary ‘Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams’, Adams offers one of the best editors notes I’ve ever heard: Be “irresistibly concise”.