I wrote this morning about the world’s best copy editor and offered your occasional reminder of how much I hate Microsoft Word.
Christine Rosen’s new book The Extinction of Experience — which I blurbed — is here also, and here’s a preview in podcast/interview form.
Jeff Bilbro’s new book Words for Conviviality — which I blurbed — is just out, and here’s a preview.
Hi! I’m back!
I’ll be back!
Looking at what the next few weeks hold for me 😬 I realize that I need to take a break from micro.blog for a while. I’ll still be writing at the big blog, though perhaps less frequently than usual. Ciao for now!
I just keep coming back to this one. 🎵
People love Big Stories, sweeping narratives that seek to describe the whole world or the last thousand years, but Big Stories always obscure two essential truths: (a) that local conditions are endlessly variable, and (b) that you and I are constrained by and accountable to our local conditions.