"Richard Ben Cramer wrote a great book about the 1988 presidential campaign, entitled “What It Takes: The Way to the White House.” It may be the best book about an American presidential campaign ever written. Mr. Cramer followed six candidates who ran that year — George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Gary Hart, Joe Biden, Dick Gephardt and … Continue reading Joe Biden Profile
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Action Park
"It was not long before our visitors reworked our advertising to better reflect their experiences: 'Action Park: Where you’re the center of the accident.'The risk did not keep people away. The risk is what drew them to us......Action Park has become a campfire tale, an urban legend, a can-you-believe-this snapshot of our culture that seemed … Continue reading Action Park
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
"'Wilson was an extraordinary artist, but his paintings were never published in a book during his lifetime,' Elder said. 'I want to bring more people to Wilson’s work, to introduce him on the world stage.'"-Staff writer, "Terre Haute artist Gilbert Wilson's work to illustrate new 'Moby-Dick' edition." Tribune-Star. July 26, 2018. Available for purchase from … Continue reading Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Gilbert Wilson
Feminize Your Canon
"[The Paris Review has a] column Feminize Your Canon [that] explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors."—Feminize Your Canon
Brought to Light
"In 1989, at the very end of the Cold War, a group of four prominent mainstream and alternative comic book writers and artists created a double volume graphic novel exposing the rampant injustices, assassinations, and terrorism facilitated by the CIA and its creatures worldwide, ostensibly to fight global communism in the years following World War … Continue reading Brought to Light
Tachyon Humble Book Bundle
"Get ready to ride off into the stars and charge into magical battles. We've teamed up with Tachyon to provide you with a bundle of imaginative digital sci-fi and fantasy books for your reading pleasure! Get ebooks like Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein, The Very Best of Caitlin by R. Kiernan, and Beyond Frankenstein by … Continue reading Tachyon Humble Book Bundle
How to Read Big Books
"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books
The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology by L. M. Sacasas
"In the fall of 2009, as the age of blogs was already fading, I launched The Frailest Thing as a space to think out loud as I worked my way through a graduate program in technology studies. In the years since, I sought to think about the challenges posed by emerging technologies, particularly digital media, … Continue reading The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology by L. M. Sacasas
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Adobe Illustrator
"The Complete Beginner's Guide to Adobe Illustrator" is an easy introduction to Illustrator and includes many contextual links to appropriate YouTube videos.
List of Book Lists by Largehearted Boy
"For the twelfth straight year, I am aggregating every online year-end book list I find in this post. As the lists appear online, I will add them to this master list, updating daily."
The Moolah Tree
"Pluck, an irritable and featherless rooster, and his best pal, the awkwardly unsocialized but lovable teddy bear known as Fuzz, met long ago in a garbage truck. A tenuous if decidedly co-dependent friendship between Fuzz & Pluck followed, sending them on a series of not-so-heroic adventures. But now, we find them on a ramshackle barge, … Continue reading The Moolah Tree
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
"Tis better to have a dispute with honourable people than to have a victory over dishonourable ones. You cannot treat with the ruined, for they have no hostages for rectitude. With them there is no true friendship, and their agreements are not binding, however stringent they may appear, because they have no feeling of honour. … Continue reading The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
Agree to Disagree or Fight
"'I don't believe in argument," he said......'You don't?' Erens said, genuinely surprised. 'Shit, and I thought I was the cynical one."'It's not cynicism,' he said flatly. 'I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.''Oh well, thank you.''It's comforting, I suppose.' ... 'Most people are not prepared to have their minds … Continue reading Agree to Disagree or Fight
Elsa Charretier’s Artbook
"A collection of my best pieces, covers, and detailed process of my storytelling work + Exclusive November: Commentary Edition...This artbook is...a collection of some of my best pieces commissioned by collectors, comic book covers, and detailed process of my storytelling work from NOVEMBER and STAR WARS: DR. APHRA. I’m hoping this will be an opportunity … Continue reading Elsa Charretier’s Artbook
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