Monday, December 06, 2004

Zeitgeist: Why Liberal Education

On the Uses of a Liberal Education As Lite Entertainment For Bored College Students by Mark Edmundson at the University of Virginia. From Harper's September 1997.
Great article that I found when I was reading the reviews of his new book "Why Read"on amazon. Put it on the list of books to read.
"Edmundson dramatizes what the recent identity crisis of the humanities has effectively obscured: that reading can change your life for the better."

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Art: Magnificent Mag

Found this amazing magazine - Esopus - eccentric, singular, beautiful. I read about it in the NY Times a couple weeks ago and got my issue in the mail earlier this week.
Building a One-Man Magazine, One Impossible Feat at a Time By DAVID CARR (NYT) 1230 words Late Edition - Final , Section B , Page 11 , Column 2
Esopus magazine is a thing of lavish, eccentric beauty, less flipped through than stared at, forcing readers to reconcile their expectations of what a magazine is with the strange artifact in their hands....