Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
During the past three decades American culture has become louder, faster, more disjointed. For immediacy of effect, writers can’t compete with popular music or action movies, cable network news
Tracy Kidder • Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
Possibly knowing that the end was near, he spent more time now on philanthropy.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
American Corporate State.
Charles Reich • The Greening of America
Rather than prestige, this cultural moment is dominated by metrics, as George S. Trow predicted in a 1980 New Yorker essay called “Within the context of no context”:
“That movement... from wonder that a country should be so big, to the wonder that a building could be so big, to the last, small wonder, that a marketplace could be so big—that was the... See more
The prestige recession
A dead man is a man who has lost; for the others, the struggle goes on.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
they both honor the institution and expose the problems of losing one’s identity to it.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
we have to search for a more objectively true account.