gurus of the glittering generalities — on the alchemy of dumb down
First published, 17th April 2013At least I’m going to start this month’s blog on a positive note but when I slide into the panic that comes, quite regularly these days – in the way it used to come to me as a child when I read or heard apocalyptic fables of the last tree or…
best summer reads!
First published, 25th June 2013I want to write a sort of response to Michael Krüger’s remarks quoted in Publishing Perspectives this month. Soon to retire after forty five years at Carl Hanser Verlag, he laments:“I only know there are good and interesting books, and bad ones. You can read them on paper or on the screen,…