Archive for June, 2007

Welty on West 43rd

I’d forgotten that Eudora Welty once worked as an editor at the NYTBR, which is moving house today.

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A case for accidentally discovering some other things

Many of the essays in Michael Bierut’s Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design originally appeared at Design Observer, the group blog he co-edits. The book opens with a cautionary piece, “Warning: May Contain Non-Design Content,” that should be required reading for practitioners of any art who believe it must be practiced and considered in a vacuum. To tide you over until . . .

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Christian bookstores in the family, and their wares

From the department of odd relationship coincidences: Max’s grandmother founded the Miami Christian bookstore that my mom was inspired by, and reacting against, when she set up her own bookstore/storefront church a couple miles down the road, back in 1983. (See teenage loser essay for details.) His grandparents attended the very Baptist church my parents tried to compromise on before . . .

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