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Antielitism Left and Right
lareviewofbooks: Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists, rightwing nutjob antielitists, leftwing wacko antielitists, famous artist antielitists, multi-platinum antielitists, and Congressional antielitists, and Liu wants…
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The man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard (via sevensheaven)
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Something that is often overlooked with creatives is time management and getting shit done. You can be the most talented designer in the world but if you don’t follow through and get stuff out there, it doesn’t matter… ‘Done is better than perfect.’ That doesn’t mean making crap – I believe you should always strive…
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You come to grips with the fact that writing something that sucks is better than writing nothing at all. If you write something and it sucks, then good for you. Not all explorers discovered lost golden cities and trade routes to the mysterious East. Some of them died in a ditch. A lot of them…
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The students who come out of school without jobs aren’t, for the most part, starry-eyed liberal arts majors but rather people who thought a degree in business, graphic design or nursing was a practical, job-oriented credential. How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel – Bloomberg via Tower of Sleep
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nevver: Type club
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I am not a policy maker and have no desire to be one. I am not running for office and would never be elected were I to. I have no designs on becoming a lobbyist. I am a father, a ‘husband’, an actor and a citizen of this country and planet who flippantly expressed on…
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Do you read to your children from your iPad or other device, or encourage them to use an e-reader to read to you? Many of us do, at least on occasion — even I, who wrote here some weeks ago that I rarely read on my own iPad anymore because I want my children to…
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By many standards, Gibson is a slow writer – his book publishing career is 27 years old, and consists of nine and a half novels, a book of short stories and this collection of essays – but he is a very, very fine one. His work has been seminal to many key moments at the…