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David Foster Wallace on Art vs. TV and the Motivation to be Smart
David Foster Wallace on Art vs. TV and the Motivation to be Smart

“…what we need…is seriously engaged art that can teach us again that we’re smart.”

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Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2005
Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2005

What evolution has to do with unsent letters and everything that’s wrong with war.

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Charles Bukowski on What Love Is
Charles Bukowski on What Love Is

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Maurice Sendak on Passion, the Risk of Art, and Never Having Written for Children
Maurice Sendak on Passion, the Risk of Art, and Never Having Written for Children

What Herman Melville has to do with the artist’s gauntlet and the sacrilege of sequels.

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Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube in 1991
Francis Ford Coppola Predicts YouTube in 1991

What a fat girl in Ohio has to do with Mozart and one of our era’s most radical shifts in the culture of creativity.

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Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography
Ira Glass on the Secret of Success in Creative Work, Animated in Kinetic Typography

On grit, the art of storytelling, and bridging the gap between good taste and great work.

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Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation
Francesco Franchi on Visual Storytelling and Representation vs. Interpretation

On the design as journalism and how to navigate the spectrum between art and information.

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Marshall McLuhan on New Forms and Old Assumptions (1960)
Marshall McLuhan on New Forms and Old Assumptions (1960)

What the golden age of television has to do with human nature and today’s Internet intellectuals.

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Advice on Writing from Modernity’s Greatest Writers
Advice on Writing from Modernity’s Greatest Writers

What sleep and plagiarism have to do with the poetry of experience and the experience of poetry.

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Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible
Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible

What Don Giovanni’s lovers have to do with the poetics of catalogues.

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