Alan Jacobs

Yeah, sure, y’all keep looking stuff up on the “internet,” I’ll just be over here with my REFERENCE BOOKS.

It seems, my dear friend, that the brains of the greatest men contract when they are gathered together, and that where there are more wise men, there you will also find less wisdom. The great assemblies are so preoccupied with minutiae, with formalities, and with empty orthodoxies, that essential issues are always relegated to the end.

— Montesquieu, The Persian Letters

I approve of the design and typography of this poster.

Decades ago I started porting my Desires and Preferences to my Reason, but WOW are there still a zillion bugs in the code.

Real talk:

• The best version of Rhapsody in Blue is the arrangement for piano, especially as played by Gershwin himself.
• The best version of Appalachian Spring is the original 13-instrument score, written as a ballet for the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Sometimes less really is more.