Ralph Waldo Emerson

On the Trail of Sublime

July 19, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by William Zinsser for his Zinsser on Friday series featured by The American Scholar website. “The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and…

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Dan Pink: An interview by Bob Morris

June 29, 2011

Pink is the author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work. His latest is DRiVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, which uses 40 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human…

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William Zinsser on Content Management

April 28, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by William Zinsser for his series “Zinsser on Friday,” a weekly posting about writing, the arts, and popular culture by the author of On Writing Well, based on a favorite quotation or…

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Andrew Sullivan on Montaigne: “The Great Blogger”

December 20, 2010

Here is one of my favorite Andrew Sullivan blog posts in which he discusses Sarah Bakewell’s brilliant book, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, about Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, author…

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