Category: Culture
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Fascinating TED talk by David Brooks
This is well worth all 18 minutes.
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The Shakespeare Brand: Yesterday’s iMedia Talk now UP on YouTube
UPDATE: More of the talk now embedded below. Yesterday I had the great pleasure of speaking at the iMedia Brand Summit– an event that I’ve been intimately associated with for years but at which I’ve rarely presented while wearing my research hat. This talk is the seed of my next book length project, and I…
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Book Review: “Scrawl,” a terrific YA novel by Mark Shulman
Here’s the executive summary of this post: “Scrawl” reveals the inner life of a junior high school bully, a huge, violent, lower class, shambling boy named Tod Munn who is secretly brilliant but plays being an oaf to conceal his intelligence and retain his hidden-in-plain-sight status in the complex social economy of his school. We…