Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written.
Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein | East Bay Booksellers
In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected.
Author, Poet, Visual Storyteller | Ellen Everett
Gloria Steinem, feminist icon and journalist, dies at 92
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist writer, journalist and activist who became one of the most recognizable voices of the women’s rights movement in the United States, has died at 92.
Book review: Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals, by Derek Wall
Elinor Ostrom was the first and so far the only woman to win the Nobel prize for economics*. She received the award in 2009 for her work on the commons. Ostrom died three years later, leaving behin…
Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason
A major book publisher has walked away from a $2.4 million deal for an unpublished debut novel after the author was accused of using AI.
Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin | East Bay Booksellers
One of The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Global bestseller. A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.
Why do we collect things?
Desire, nostalgia, loss, and completeness in the personal collections of Joseph Cornell, Peter Blake, and Vladimir Nabokov
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akka…
We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times
She was accused of publishing AI slop in The New York Times. She says she didn't use AI to generate content — but did use AI to get published.
Steve Jobs
"FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values"--
Historisches Erzählen | Methoden Historischen Lernens
Die utb elibrary ist eine verlagsübergreifende Online-Bibliothek mit über 18.000 Titeln von mehr als 40 Verlagen. Sie wird von der Stuttgarter Verlagskooperation utb betrieben und bereitgestellt. Neben allen digital lieferbaren utb-Lehrbüchern enthält die elibrary auch ein breites Angebot an wissenschaftlicher Fachliteratur anderer Verlage, sowohl als E-Books wie auch in Form von E-Journals. Alle Titel sind durch eine leistungsfähige Suche erschlossen.
In English: Swedish start-up used Greta Thunberg to bring in millions
Ingmar Rentzhog, an entrepreneur who claims he found and helped develop the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg into a world phenomenon, also used her name to bring in almost SEK 10 million in venture capital for his company - without her knowledge, SvD has found. “We had no information about that”, says Svante Thunberg, the teenager’s father.
Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
Writing books isn't a good idea
Could the creator economy provide a better one?
From Demoness to Feminist Icon: The Truth About Lilith - Lilith Magazine
Despite a hard-and-fast refusal to discuss Lilith for nearly six years on my social media platform, Jewitches, she remains the most popular question, request, and topic of discussion...Many know her as merely Adam’s first wife, the prequel to Eve, but her history is far more complex.
