Welty on West 43rd
I’d forgotten that Eudora Welty once worked as an editor at the NYTBR, which is moving house today.
I’d forgotten that Eudora Welty once worked as an editor at the NYTBR, which is moving house today.
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 . . .
Raymond Carver Mad Libs: lots of bad feelings, smokable things, and expletives required.
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 . . .
Discussion at the Cormac McCarthy Society website devolves into political bickering.