Whatever the future holds for printed books, this much is certain: there is no shortage of ink being spilled presently by writers offering their visions of the digital future – In “How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write,” author Steven Johnson points to two key developments, “the breakthrough success of Amazon’s [...]
Archive for April 20th, 2009
Digital Tea Leaves: On eBooks & the Future of Reading & Writing
Posted in Books, Business, Science & Technology, Writers & Writing on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Creativity Stimulus: Prospects for a “New Deal” for American Culture
Posted in Art & Artists, Obama, Plays & Playwrights, Poets & Poetry, Politics, Popular Culture, Writers & Writing on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“On inauguration day, Tom Brokaw was moved to compare Barack Obama’s election to Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution. At the eye of each storm, of course, was an icon who merged the political and the aesthetic–Václav Havel, the rock-star poet and prophet, and Barack Obama, the post-soul master of his own story. Both struck down eras [...]
“The Untold Stories”: New Research on Holocaust Killing Fields in the Former Soviet Union Available Online
Posted in Crimes & Misdemeanors, Europe, International Affairs, Jewish Life, Museums & Exhibitions, Religion on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Holocaust deniers aside, the world is not ignorant of the systematic Nazi slaughter of some six million Jews in World War II. People know of the gas chambers in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; many have heard of the tens of thousands shot dead in the Ukrainian ravine of Babi Yar. But little has been known about [...]
