The Geography of Great Literature, in Hand-Lettered Typography
Twain, Didion, Thoreau, White, McCarthy, Eugenides. In a recent collaboration with Debbie Millman for Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual, I selected a beloved literary quotation representing each...
View ArticleThe 13 Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2013
From Alan Turing to Susan Sontag, by way of a lost cat, a fierce Victorian lady-journalist, and some very odd creative habits. It’s that time of year again, the time for those highly subjective,...
View ArticleFrom the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley: How Mark Twain Became the Steve Jobs of...
The power of mischief, timing, and typography. Mark Twain has no shortage of cultural credits — celebrated humorist, irreverent adviser to little girls, opinionated critic and cultural commentator,...
View ArticleAllergy to Originality: Mark Twain and the Remix Nature of All Creative Work,...
Why why all creative culture is built on “plagiarism, literary debt, appropriation, incorporation, retelling, rewriting, recapitulation, revision, reprise…” When Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism,...
View ArticleMark Twain on Slavery, How Religion Is Used to Justify Injustice, and What...
“She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.” Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is celebrated as America’s greatest humorist —...
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