[contextly_auto_sidebar id="Iwl9o6IO0qS8QhMgMHnnfdwEgtpDwMBi"] ONE of the best books on life in the digital age -- and perhaps the one closest to my own point of view -- is Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. I like it for a host of reasons, among them Carr's elegant style, cool tone, and literary and humanistic sensibility. Among my favorite passages: When … [Read more...]
The Origins of the Creative Impulse
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="CjGJi1ElzHO4Eiypu9nm3yJ0WNWxidhx"] WITH the release of my book getting close, I'm going to start salvaging some of the great epigraphs that helped me tell the story -- in some cases, the history or even prehistory -- of the creative class. These, then, are other people's words which helped me to explain things, but which I lost in the edit. Here is the first, from … [Read more...]