February 2010
2 posts
2 tags
Zeitoun
I didn’t use WiFi for most of my Virgin America flight because of Dave Eggers’s excellent book Zeitoun. The author calls it “a nonfiction account a Syrian-American immigrant and his extraordinary experience during Hurricane Katrina”. If you haven’t read it yet, don’t let me spoil it for you with the rest of this post. Get a copy. It’s a page turner.
...
2 tags
The Now Generation
One of our all-star Sawhorse team members, Natan Edelsburg, gave me a fun challenge by inviting me to write a little essay for his report on The Now Generation. Here it is:
Never trust anyone over 20. We grew up relying on editors to tell us what matters. Whatever was on the front page of a newspaper, cover of a magazine or top of the news hour seemed to be what mattered most.
The Now Generation...