Month: <span>February 2019</span>

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Speeches & Interviews—A Perq Of Authorship

As I write these words, I have just been asked to be interviewed on a video podcast tomorrow. That’s short notice, but I expect the conversation to be freewheeling, so I shouldn’t need to do anything to prepare. When an interview is specific to a book I wrote a year or several years earlier, I...

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From Gutenberg To Google

As the old cigarette commercial used to proclaim, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” WE’VE come a long way—from the first moveable type to search engines.

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Warm Yourself With Winter Reading

Although the Polar Vortex is gone—at least for now—and despite Punxsatawney Phil’s predictions of an early spring (and did you know that statistically he is wrong more often than not?), most of the nation is still in a deep freeze. What to do with your free time? It’s not gardening weather; it’s too early to...