Currently in the Inkwell
Don Armstrong: The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, beginning March 13, 2024
Author Don Armstrong discusses his book, The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason, which tells Gleason’s story as the son of a horseplayer who became America’s leading pop music critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival. A pioneering jazz and rock critic, he helped the San Francisco Chronicle transition into the rock era.
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The Annual 'State of the World' Conversation
The State of the World 2024, January 1 – 16
Once again Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky discuss the State of the World, along with other contributors from within the WELL community. It’s 2024, confusion and chaos reign – can we make sense of it?
Recently in the Inkwell
The State of the News, January 30 – February 12, 2024, with veteran journalists and journalism educators John Schwartz and Paula Span
A former longtime reporter for The Washington Post, since 2009 Paula Span has been writing the “New Old Age” column for The New York Times. The essays she wrote for another Times column, “Generation Grandparent,” have been adapted into an audio book titled “The Bubbe Diaries” in 2021, and is now working on a book about octogenarians. Paula is a longtime adjunct faculty member of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
John Schwartz recently traded in his 30+-year reporting career for being a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also associate director of U.T.’s Global Sustainability Leadership Institute. John covered science, technology and climate for 21 years at The New York Times, following stints as a business reporter/senior business editor for Newsweek Magazine and a science reporter for The Washington Post. His books include “Oddly Normal: One Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality,” and “This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order.”
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