Michael Tamblyn of Booknet Canada made a series of provocative proposals for publishing, some of which he and his organization are involved in. I commented on 5 of them in a prior post; today I want to explore the one nearest to my personal interest: Michael’s suggestion that an intelligent data-connected electronic catalog would enable […]
This is a post about nothing; it doesn’t count
This is a post about “no post today”. Or maybe this is a Seinfeld post. Its about nothing. A particular number of years ago that my friend Lorraine Shanley of Market Partners could tell you and I can’t — but I would say about 15 — she confided that she thought it would be smart […]
Len Shatzkin and the breaking of a publishing color line
There was a lot of lore in our family but one of my favorite bits of it was my father’s great pride at having hired the first two black office workers at Doubleday in the 1950s. This was particularly cheeky for the guy who was the only Jew in top management ranks. The way I […]
Music stories: a bit about The Drongos
My wife, Martha Moran, and I managed a rock and roll band 25 years ago. They were called The Drongos. They were four intrepid young New Zealanders who had come to America with an itinerant theatrical troupe and stayed when the itinerants moved on. They made pretty close to a living playing on New York […]
On my friend, Professor Richard C. Wade
Richard C. Wade is credited with inventing urban history as a field of American history. He taught at the University of Rochester in the 1950s, at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, and became — along with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. — one of two Distinguished Professors of History at the City University of New […]
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