Intricata come un giallo, appassionante come un’inchiesta - ed in effetti questo è: un’inchiesta storica - la ricerca della libreria progettata da Frank Lloyd Wright è tutta da leggere. E si fa leggere. Buona per il fine settimana.
Money quote: “When he took on the project in 1906, Wright was thirty-nine years old and already well-known among Chicago’s elite, but he was not a celebrity by any means. He was also in the middle of a secret affair that would end his marriage. “Those years between 1904 and 1909 were to be pivotal in Wright’s life,” Meryle Secrest writes in Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography. Before that period, Wright was a Midwestern family man who built lavish suburban homes. Afterward, he abandoned his family (including six children) in Oak Park and fled to Europe with his mistress (who was also his neighbor’s wife). When he returned to the States a few months later, he became an international figure who tackled grand public projects from Manhattan to Tokyo.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/22/when-frank-lloyd-wright-designed-a-bookstore/
Money quote: “When he took on the project in 1906, Wright was thirty-nine years old and already well-known among Chicago’s elite, but he was not a celebrity by any means. He was also in the middle of a secret affair that would end his marriage. “Those years between 1904 and 1909 were to be pivotal in Wright’s life,” Meryle Secrest writes in Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography. Before that period, Wright was a Midwestern family man who built lavish suburban homes. Afterward, he abandoned his family (including six children) in Oak Park and fled to Europe with his mistress (who was also his neighbor’s wife). When he returned to the States a few months later, he became an international figure who tackled grand public projects from Manhattan to Tokyo.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/22/when-frank-lloyd-wright-designed-a-bookstore/
The Paris Review
When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Bookstore
Margaret Anderson, the founder of ‘The Little Review,’ called it “the most beautiful bookshop in the world.” But Browne’s Bookstore survived for only five years.
Un modo un po’ complicato ma piacevole per dire che le persone non sono tutte uguali.
Money quote: “Five years after the call from England, I was living with my boyfriend and our lover, an Australian grad student who spent three months of the year with us — her summer, our winter. After three years together, we tried to figure out a way to live together permanently, to raise children together. But distance and national borders defeated us; we loved each other, but not quite enough.”
https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-my-immigrant-parents-may-never-understand-c6aea51091ab
Money quote: “Five years after the call from England, I was living with my boyfriend and our lover, an Australian grad student who spent three months of the year with us — her summer, our winter. After three years together, we tried to figure out a way to live together permanently, to raise children together. But distance and national borders defeated us; we loved each other, but not quite enough.”
https://medium.com/s/unrulybodies/the-body-my-immigrant-parents-may-never-understand-c6aea51091ab
Medium
Breathing Space
The news broke with a phone call from England. A distant relative, calling my Sri Lankan American immigrant parents in Connecticut and asking them, “Do you know what your daughter is putting on the…
Negli Stati Uniti il matrimonio, istituzione ovunque in crisi, rinasce grazie alle unioni dello stesso sesso. E diventa una dichiarazione politica.
Money quote: “But there is one statistical tidbit that flies in the face of this conventional wisdom: A clear majority of same-sex couples who are living together are now married”
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/03/incredible-everlasting-institution-marriage/555320/
Money quote: “But there is one statistical tidbit that flies in the face of this conventional wisdom: A clear majority of same-sex couples who are living together are now married”
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/03/incredible-everlasting-institution-marriage/555320/
The Atlantic
Marriage Has Become a Trophy
A wedding is no longer the first step into adulthood that it once was, but, often, the last.
La recensione della tastiera Dodocool per iPad Pro 10.5 - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/la-recensione-della-tastiera-dodocool-per-ipad-pro-10-5/
https://www.macitynet.it/la-recensione-della-tastiera-dodocool-per-ipad-pro-10-5/
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La recensione della tastiera Dodocool per iPad Pro 10.5 - Macitynet.it
Punti di forza e debolezze dello strumento di scrittura alternativo alla tastiera ufficiale di Apple: metá del prezzo ma anche meno flessibilità
Essere scrittori oggi.
Money quote: “You need to read voraciously, be able to view your manunoscript objectively enough to edit it, work on your author brand, build your mailing list, run a blog/website, maintain a social media presence, guest post, and so much more. All of these things take time, and they don’t offer direct rewards.”
https://writingcooperative.com/stop-romanticizing-your-writing-career-8d1de425a54b
Money quote: “You need to read voraciously, be able to view your manunoscript objectively enough to edit it, work on your author brand, build your mailing list, run a blog/website, maintain a social media presence, guest post, and so much more. All of these things take time, and they don’t offer direct rewards.”
https://writingcooperative.com/stop-romanticizing-your-writing-career-8d1de425a54b
The Writing Cooperative
Stop Romanticizing Your Writing Career
When your average person thinks of a writer, they probably picture something like this:
Il primo gennaio dell’anno prossimo negli Usa comincia la rivoluzione: escono dal copyright e vanno nel pubblico dominio una tonnellata di libri musica e film. In questo articolo anche una buona ricapitolazione della storia del diritto di riproduzione in America (tldr: una cosa incivile).
Money quote: “This coming January, Charlie Chaplin’s film The Pilgrim and Cecil B. DeMille’s The 10 Commandments will slip the shackles of ownership, allowing any individual or company to release them freely, mash them up with other work, or sell them with no restriction. This will be true also for some compositions by Bela Bartok, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis, Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Pigeons, e.e. cummings’s Tulips and Chimneys, Noël Coward’s London Calling! musical, Edith Wharton’s A Son at the Front, many stories by P.G. Wodehouse, and hosts upon hosts of forgotten works, according to research by the Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/557420
Money quote: “This coming January, Charlie Chaplin’s film The Pilgrim and Cecil B. DeMille’s The 10 Commandments will slip the shackles of ownership, allowing any individual or company to release them freely, mash them up with other work, or sell them with no restriction. This will be true also for some compositions by Bela Bartok, Aldous Huxley’s Antic Hay, Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis, Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Pigeons, e.e. cummings’s Tulips and Chimneys, Noël Coward’s London Calling! musical, Edith Wharton’s A Son at the Front, many stories by P.G. Wodehouse, and hosts upon hosts of forgotten works, according to research by the Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/557420
The Atlantic
A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain
For the first time in two decades, a huge number of books, films, and other works will escape U.S. copyright law.
Le librerie indipendenti più famose del mondo. Ne conosco e ne ho visitate fin troppe, animé.
Money quote: “Imagine a New York City in which 48 bookstores were happily (and, one presumes, profitably) crammed into a five-block stretch of what was then Fourth Avenue, a stretch known as “Book Row.” “
https://lithub.com/the-10-most-famous-bookstores-in-the-world/
Money quote: “Imagine a New York City in which 48 bookstores were happily (and, one presumes, profitably) crammed into a five-block stretch of what was then Fourth Avenue, a stretch known as “Book Row.” “
https://lithub.com/the-10-most-famous-bookstores-in-the-world/
Literary Hub
The 10 Most Famous Bookstores in the World
Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of Sylvia Beach—probably the most notorious bookstore owner in modern history, and the founder of what is still arguably the most famous bookstore in the …
Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di tecnologia, cioè di informatica? Dodici cose per cui vale davvero l”hashtag #sapevato
Money quote: “Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions”
https://medium.com/humane-tech/12-things-everyone-should-understand-about-tech-d158f5a26411
Money quote: “Technology isn’t an industry, it’s a method of transforming the culture and economics of existing systems and institutions”
https://medium.com/humane-tech/12-things-everyone-should-understand-about-tech-d158f5a26411
Medium
12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
Tech is more important than ever, deeply affecting culture, politics and society. Given all the time we spend with our gadgets and apps…
Del social jet lag ancora non avevo sentito parlare...
Money quote: “Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules – say, night owls taking early morning courses – received lower grades due to “social jet lag,” a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands.”
http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/social-jetlag/
Money quote: “Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules – say, night owls taking early morning courses – received lower grades due to “social jet lag,” a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands.”
http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/03/29/social-jetlag/
Berkeley News
Poor grades tied to class times that don't match our biological clocks - Berkeley News
Schedules of night owls, morning larks and daytime finches may predict their educational outcomes
Tutte le novità di Pages 7.0 - la mia recensione per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tutte-le-novita-di-pages-7-0/
https://www.macitynet.it/tutte-le-novita-di-pages-7-0/
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Tutte le novità di Pages 7.0 - recensione
Abbiamo analizzato la nuova versione di Pages rilasciata nel Keynote di marzo 2018: il software di scrittura e impaginazione di Apple è ritornato ad essere un campione della sua categoria. Ma non è esente da difetti
Se è meglio addirittura di Elena Ferrante, forse il Nobel se lo merita davvero. Almeno, secondo il New York Times. --Grazie a Simo per la segnalazione valida.
Money quote: “A strong case could be made for Murnane, who recently turned 79, as the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of. Even in his home country, he remains a cult figure; in 1999, when he won the Patrick White Award for underrecognized Australian writers, all his books were out of print. Yet his work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee and Shirley Hazzard, as well as young American writers like Ben Lerner and Joshua Cohen. Teju Cole has described Murnane as “a genius” and a “worthy heir to Beckett.” Last year, Ladbrokes placed his odds at winning the Nobel Prize for Literature at 50 to 1 — better than Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie and Elena Ferrante.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/magazine/gerald-murnane-next-nobel-laureate-literature-australia.html
Money quote: “A strong case could be made for Murnane, who recently turned 79, as the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of. Even in his home country, he remains a cult figure; in 1999, when he won the Patrick White Award for underrecognized Australian writers, all his books were out of print. Yet his work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee and Shirley Hazzard, as well as young American writers like Ben Lerner and Joshua Cohen. Teju Cole has described Murnane as “a genius” and a “worthy heir to Beckett.” Last year, Ladbrokes placed his odds at winning the Nobel Prize for Literature at 50 to 1 — better than Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie and Elena Ferrante.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/magazine/gerald-murnane-next-nobel-laureate-literature-australia.html
Nytimes
Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town?
With the publication of two new books, Gerald Murnane might finally find an American audience.
Il nuovo problema che Facebook si trova a fronteggiare (cioè i suoi dirigenti, dipendenti e azionisti) è che l’opinione pubblica si accorga di chi veramente sia (e quanto poco all’altezza del suo ruolo sia) Mark Zuckerberg. Egli è in realtà un ragazzotto americano che non sa niente di storia e di politica ma che ha la responsabilità della macchina per il consenso più potente della storia.
Money quote: “Zuckerberg told the show's host, Stephen Dubner, that "the world is today more divided than I would have expected for the level of openness and connection that we have today."”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/mark-zuckerberg-says-he-thought-facebook-could-solve-a-lot-of-problems-but-the-world-is-more-divided-than-he-expected
Money quote: “Zuckerberg told the show's host, Stephen Dubner, that "the world is today more divided than I would have expected for the level of openness and connection that we have today."”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/mark-zuckerberg-says-he-thought-facebook-could-solve-a-lot-of-problems-but-the-world-is-more-divided-than-he-expected
World Economic Forum
Mark Zuckerberg says the world is much more divided than he ever expected
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed Facebook's role in society on the 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast.
Il nuovo direttore della Paris Review è una donna di 34 anni
Money quote: “The board of The Paris Review Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Nemens as editor of The Paris Review. She will be the seventh editor in the sixty-five-year history of The Paris Review.
An editor, writer, and illustrator, Ms. Nemens, thirty-four, has been coeditor of The Southern Review since 2013. She has discovered and published numerous award-winning authors. In the past year alone, her selections for The Southern Review have won two Pushcart and two O. Henry Prizes; three were selected for inclusion in 2018’s Best American Short Stories.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/05/announcing-the-new-editor-of-the-paris-review/
Money quote: “The board of The Paris Review Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Nemens as editor of The Paris Review. She will be the seventh editor in the sixty-five-year history of The Paris Review.
An editor, writer, and illustrator, Ms. Nemens, thirty-four, has been coeditor of The Southern Review since 2013. She has discovered and published numerous award-winning authors. In the past year alone, her selections for The Southern Review have won two Pushcart and two O. Henry Prizes; three were selected for inclusion in 2018’s Best American Short Stories.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/05/announcing-the-new-editor-of-the-paris-review/
The Paris Review
Announcing the New Editor of ‘The Paris Review’
The board of The Paris Review Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Nemens as editor of The Paris Review. She will be the seventh editor in the sixty-five-year history of The Paris Review. An editor, writer, and illustrator, Ms. Nemens…
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🗽La prossima copertina del New Yorker, disegnata da Tom Gauld, è dedicata ai suoni della primavera in città. Sarà la prima copertina musicale della storica rivista, grazie a una versione web da cliccare e ascoltare.
The New Yorker
Tom Gauld’s “Soundtrack to Spring”
“I wanted this image to be about some of the nicer sounds you hear, especially in the springtime,” the artist says, about his cover for this week’s magazine.
Non possiamo piacere a tutti. Ma pensa...
Money quote: “But, as David Foster Wallace (sorry) wrote in Infinite Jest (sorry again), “certain persons simply will not like you not matter what you do,” and no matter how likable you think you are, you’re not going to win over every person you meet”
https://lifehacker.com/how-not-to-care-when-people-dont-like-you-1823964733
Money quote: “But, as David Foster Wallace (sorry) wrote in Infinite Jest (sorry again), “certain persons simply will not like you not matter what you do,” and no matter how likable you think you are, you’re not going to win over every person you meet”
https://lifehacker.com/how-not-to-care-when-people-dont-like-you-1823964733
Lifehacker
How Not to Care When People Don't Like You
At one point during high school, I found out that my
friends didn’t like me. One of the girls in my “group” told me I wasn’t
invited to a birthday p
friends didn’t like me. One of the girls in my “group” told me I wasn’t
invited to a birthday p
Tutte le novità su Keynote 8: cosa ci piace e cosa no - la
Mia recensione per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tutte-le-novita-su-keynote-8-cosa-ci-piace-e-cosa-no/
Mia recensione per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tutte-le-novita-su-keynote-8-cosa-ci-piace-e-cosa-no/
Macitynet.it
Tutte le novità su Keynote 8: cosa ci piace e cosa no - Macitynet.it
Rilanciato all’evento Chicago, il software usato da Steve Jobs per i suoi keynote è tornato ad essere protagonista nel mondo del business e della scuola
Solo per ricordarci che questa e le prossime settimane vedranno il ritorno di un personaggio che un anno fa era costantemente in televisione: l'ex capo dell'FBI James Comey. Perché? Beh, ha scritto la sua autobiografia...
Money quote: "James Comey is about to be ubiquitous. His book will be published next week, and parts may leak this week. Starting Sunday, he will begin an epic publicity tour, including interviews with Stephen Colbert, David Remnick, Rachel Maddow, Mike Allen, George Stephanopoulos and “The View.”
All of which will raise the question: What, ultimately, are we supposed to make of Comey?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/opinion/james-comey.html
Money quote: "James Comey is about to be ubiquitous. His book will be published next week, and parts may leak this week. Starting Sunday, he will begin an epic publicity tour, including interviews with Stephen Colbert, David Remnick, Rachel Maddow, Mike Allen, George Stephanopoulos and “The View.”
All of which will raise the question: What, ultimately, are we supposed to make of Comey?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/08/opinion/james-comey.html
Nytimes
Opinion | The Tragedy of James Comey
How to understand the man who may be the most significant supporting player of the Trump era, as he prepares to barnstorm the country on a book tour.
La via delle stoiche virtù, istruzioni per l'uso
Money quote:
Enroll in The Strenuous Life (embrace the motto of “Do Hard Things”)
Take cold showers
Hold/try to calm a crying baby while staying completely cool
Exercise outside in inclement weather (perhaps without shirt, shoes, etc.)
https://www.artofmanliness.com/2018/04/09/5-ancient-stoic-tactics-modern-life/
Money quote:
Enroll in The Strenuous Life (embrace the motto of “Do Hard Things”)
Take cold showers
Hold/try to calm a crying baby while staying completely cool
Exercise outside in inclement weather (perhaps without shirt, shoes, etc.)
https://www.artofmanliness.com/2018/04/09/5-ancient-stoic-tactics-modern-life/
The Art of Manliness
5 Ancient Stoic Tactics for Modern Life | The Art of Manliness
Stoicism emerged as a philosophy, a way of life — similar to a religion, really — most famously in ancient Rome somewhere around 50-100 AD (even though it was Greeks who pioneered the thinking). Two millennia later, the philosophy is enjoying a revival of…
Mark Zuckberberg davanti al Senato Usa: vince ai punti
Qui in sintesi com'è andata
Money quote: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Senate in a gruelling five-hour session on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg's delivery was wooden, and stuck closely to company talking points — but didn't make any major mistakes.
Many of the senators were painfully tech illiterate, and the 33-year-old exec found himself explaining basic features of Facebook.
His answers to some of the tougher questions were less satisfying, but he was never pushed as hard as he could have been.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-us-congress-cambridge-analytica-russia-bias-2018-4
Qui in sintesi com'è andata
Money quote: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Senate in a gruelling five-hour session on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg's delivery was wooden, and stuck closely to company talking points — but didn't make any major mistakes.
Many of the senators were painfully tech illiterate, and the 33-year-old exec found himself explaining basic features of Facebook.
His answers to some of the tougher questions were less satisfying, but he was never pushed as hard as he could have been.
http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-us-congress-cambridge-analytica-russia-bias-2018-4
Business Insider
Mark Zuckerberg survived 5 hours of relentless questioning from Congress — here's what you need to know
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't screw up. This time, at least.
Zuckerberg vs Senato USA: vince il Ceo di Facebook ai punti - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/zuckerberg-vs-senato-usa-vince-il-ceo-di-facebook-ai-punti/
https://www.macitynet.it/zuckerberg-vs-senato-usa-vince-il-ceo-di-facebook-ai-punti/
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Zuckerberg vs Senato USA: vince il Ceo di Facebook ai punti - Macitynet.it
Il Ceo di Facebook esce stanco ma vittorioso dopo un’audizione di cinque ore caratterizzata soprattutto dall’ignoranza della classe politica che lo ha messo sotto accusa
Papà che viaggiano con bambine molto piccole, tutto da soli. Non male: un esempio e una proposta da ascoltare
Money quote: "We ended up cycling along the eastern coast of Taiwan, hung out with baby animals in a farm, went onto boats of fishermen, chased for trains, climbed hills and sheltering together from a storm and had more giggles than tantrums."
https://medium.com/@stefenchow/why-every-father-should-bring-his-toddler-out-for-a-mini-adventure-be147d9490e7
Money quote: "We ended up cycling along the eastern coast of Taiwan, hung out with baby animals in a farm, went onto boats of fishermen, chased for trains, climbed hills and sheltering together from a storm and had more giggles than tantrums."
https://medium.com/@stefenchow/why-every-father-should-bring-his-toddler-out-for-a-mini-adventure-be147d9490e7
Medium
Why every father should bring his toddler out for a mini adventure.
Sometime late last year, I found some spare time in my work schedule. My daughter was slightly more than 2 years old, and I noticed her…