Recent Articles
April 8, 2012
RIP Mike Wallace 1
by Nick Moran
60 Minutes pioneer Mike Wallace passed away this morning at the age of 93. At CBS’s website, colleague Morley Safer remembers his friend.
April 7, 2012
No Wonder They Spend More Time, Then 0
by Nick Moran
Are these two statistics linked? According to a Pew Internet Libraries study, 30% of those “who read e-content say they now spend more time reading,” and according to studies cited on CreativePro, people can read printed text read “25% faster than on-screen text.”
April 7, 2012
Much Ado About Baltimore 0
by Nick Moran
One consequence of creating a beloved show is that you’ve got to deal with superficial paeans to it. David Simon has to know this, but he still seems cranky in this interview. Of course I’m not saying he can’t be chagrined by Grantland or Vulture’s recent TV brackets (which Simon singled out in subsequent remarks), [...]
April 7, 2012
Koestenbaum on Levé 0
by Nick Moran
Humiliation author Wayne Koestenbaum takes a page out of our own Mark O’Connell’s book to review Édouard Levé’s Autoportrait.
April 7, 2012
Shhhh! 0
by Nick Moran
The sound level of a typical quiet bedroom measures 30 decibels, but what if you still can’t concentrate on your reading? Well, maybe you should move to Minneapolis and use Steven Orfield’s “anechoic chamber,” which at -9 decibels is officially the quietest room in the world.
April 7, 2012
Visual Stories 0
by Nick Moran
If you haven’t seen Knopf art director Chip Kidd’s humorous TED Talk yet, you should really get right on that. He makes a good “visual first impression,” discusses the role of a book designer, the smell of an iPad, and does it all while wearing a “skanky mic.”
