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Tuesday, May 18, 2021

An Architecture Saint

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:21 am

"Art Gensler, an architect and entrepreneur who
turned a small San Francisco architecture firm
into one of the largest in the world, with projects
spanning the globe, died on May 10 at his home
in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 85."

Gillian Friedman in The New York Times
     on May 17, 2021

Gensler: "The book I have written, Art’s Principles , is oriented
toward those leading and running a professional practice.
I hope it finds a home in the Cornell library."

 https://www.gensler.com/blog/q-a-with-art-gensler

The Cornell library appeared in a webpage quoted here
on May 10, the date of Gensler's reported death —

Related material — Some library architecture I visited yesterday.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The Triangle Induction (Attn: Harlan Kane)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:23 am

Related material from Wikipedia

Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born
American novelist, journalist, and literary translator.
He is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine

n+1

and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism.
Early life and education
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into a Jewish family in Moscow….

Some related images —

The logo of a news site that yesterday
covered a Colorado Springs story:

Monday, May 10, 2021

For a Quicker Picker-Upper

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:53 am

“The following is an excerpt from Joshua Cohen’s
new novel, The Netanyahus, out next week
in the UK from Fitzcarraldo Editions, and on June 22
in the US from New York Review Books.”

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/
online-only/an-american-historian/ 

” After half a century in the professorate,
I was recently retired from my post as the
Andrew William Mellon Memorial Professor
of American Economic History at Corbin University
in Corbindale, New York, in the occasionally rural,
occasionally wild heart of Chautauqua County,
just inland from Lake Erie among the apple orchards
and apiaries and dairies—or, as dismissive, geographically
illiterate New York City–folk insist on calling it, ‘Upstate.’ ”

For some background on the source, see Wikipedia
on Joshua Cohen and on n+1 magazine.

A related search result:

Though the n+1  piece was published April 27, I have only now noticed it.
Perhaps some quicker picker-upper in Chautauqua County has already
written about the novel’s local color.

A post from this  journal on that date, April 27, was related to my own
non-fictional college experience in Fredonia, NY (Chautauqua County)  —

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 —New Site

Tags:   — m759 @ 7:02 PM

Sunday, May 9, 2021

Bounty Hunter: Q is for Quality

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:05 pm

The Nation  (May 7)  on Larry McMurtry's bookstore —

"It was as if a tornado had swept up Charing Cross Road
and plopped it down next to a rural Dairy Queen."

Or swept up Buckingham Palace and . . .

News story: Quality Markets will shut down 53 stores

Related philosophy —

And . . .

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