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John Hodgman’s Advice for Writers 19 Jan 2013 | 02:04 am
Author and former literary agent John Hodgman (That Is All) gives disarmingly sincere tips on how to make it as a writer: Follow The Casual Optimist on Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | | The Accidental O...
Something for the Weekend 18 Jan 2013 | 07:29 pm
Rubbish – Rachel Cooke on the artist Kurt Schwitters at The Guardian: Merz doesn’t mean anything: it is a nonsense word (it comes from Commerzbank, an ad for which appears in one of his earliest colla...
Midweek Miscellany 17 Jan 2013 | 09:43 am
A great post on designer Josef Müller-Brockmann at I Love Typography: A student from the back of the room shouted out a wish to see JMB’s business card. As JMB casually pulled the business card out of...
Oliver Jeffers: Picture Book Maker 16 Jan 2013 | 08:03 pm
A lovely new video about Oliver Jeffers and how he creates his picture books: Follow The Casual Optimist on Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | | The Accidental Optimist Follow The Casual Optimist on Twitt...
Something for the Weekend 11 Jan 2013 | 11:30 pm
Flavorwire asked a number of prominent designers — including Coralie Bickford-Smith, John Gall, Peter Mendelsund and Barbara deWilde — to choose their favourite book covers designs from the previous ...
TateShots: Kurt Schwitters ‘Merz Barn’ 11 Jan 2013 | 08:23 pm
I didn’t know that influential German artist Kurt Schwitters spent the last years of his life in exile in England’s Lake District creating something called the ‘Merz Barn’. Did you? Schwitters started...
The ABC of Architects 10 Jan 2013 | 08:33 pm
This is wonderful: an animated alphabetical list of the most important architects with their best known building: Follow The Casual Optimist on Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | | The Accidental Optimist ...
Midweek Miscellany 9 Jan 2013 | 06:51 pm
Ghost Shapes – Writer Warren Ellis talks comics and, very briefly, his new novel Gun Machine at Robot Six: Gun Machine is as much about the ghost shape of Manhattan’s previous settlements and roadways...
Robert Hughes on Writers and Company 7 Jan 2013 | 07:35 am
Earlier today, CBC Writers and Company repeated Eleanor Wachtel’s 2006 conversation with Robert Hughes, the Australian art critic and historian. He spoke with Wachtel about his memoir, Things I Didn’...
Something for the Weekend 4 Jan 2013 | 10:47 pm
Wondrous Horrors – Ariella Budick on the centenary of the 1913 Armory Show in New York, for the Financial Times: Critics did not reject every European innovation. They nodded at the impressionists, pu...
