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We inhabit what writer George W. S. Trow has christened “the context of no context.”
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
By forgoing a standard salary and taking profit participation instead, Stewart paved the way for actors, directors, producers, and writers to leverage their celebrity at the negotiating table. Similarly, Wasserman cofounded independent production companies for such luminaries as Jack Benny, Alfred Hitchcock, Errol Flynn, and dozens of other MCA cli
... See moreJames Andrew Miller • Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
his feisty
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
(Herbert Simon said it best: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.")
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
Frank Norris’s ungainly naturalist novel McTeague in the former and to T. S. Eliot’s cryptic “The Waste Land” in the latter.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Malcolm Cowley assisted me in three important ways: His New Yorker profile of Perkins, “Unshaken Friend,” published in 1944, was the most comprehensive account of Perkins’s life to date.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Voir All or Nothing At All m’a rappelé qu’il n’y aurait jamais plus un autre Sinatra. Ni la culture populaire ni notre société ne fonctionnent plus comme ça, en permettant à un individu d’échouer de façon répétitive et de se remettre en selle, d’agir effrontément et parfois coupablement, sans présenter des excuses. La culture populaire hésiterait a
... See moreBret Easton Ellis • White - édition française (French Edition)
sense of entitlement