Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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This is provocative: I’d been wondering whether the recession will cause people to bond more, socialize more, become less isolated. David Brooks writes in his column yesterday that he thinks, on the contrary, it will cause more anomie.
“Late Bloomers,” by Malcom Gladwell, in the current New Yorker. It’s about creative process, contrasting precocious wunderkind geniuses (like Picasso) with late-blooming masters of craft (like Cézanne). Gladwell describes these as two distinct types, but I have a feeling that the reality may be more of a continuum—a great Kinsey Scale of creativity. Definitely a [...]
I’m in a reading frenzy recently: two thick novels in the last ten days. I inhaled ‘Then We Came to the End,’ by Joshua Ferris, and then moved immediately into ‘The Emperor’s Children,’ by Claire Messud. Purely by coincidence, each novel features an unstable character whose catalytic effects on the plot are driven by an [...]
I have a book review of Randa Jarrar’s coming-of-age novel, A Map of Home, out today in the L Magazine, NYC’s downtown freebie. I’ve admired the L Magazine since it started up in ’03-ish, and I am super psyched to be in its pages.
I’m digging Shoshana Zuboff’s column in Business Week (actually, to my surprise, I’m finding a lot of swell stuff to read in Business Week) about observing the economic panic of her neighbors in Maine. She invokes the Great Depression and dramatically, but also bravely, she proposes opening our conversation about the economy way, way up: [...]
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