Welcome to Friday,
Here are five things I thought worth sharing this week.
Milk’s image, a public relations history.
The stunning and short-lived world of blackwork print production is beautiful and sort of hypnotic.
The latest buzzy mini-series is based on the true story of a writer using the bad behavior of his friends as thinly-veiled storylines for his novel. Although, when that writer is Truman Capote, and those friends make up high-society, the drama and glamour really beg for the Hollywood treatment, no?
In decades past, reading was not simply an activity one did out of desperate boredom, but ways a gateway into most social settings. People gathered to read excerpts at parties, polite conversation about popular books was expected in polite society. However, it seems those days have mostly passed. Should we be concerned? Ursula K. LeGuin on “The Alleged Decline in Reading”
Advice on Entertaining, through the years.
Currently reading: Milk: A 10,000 Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
Have a creative weekend.
Photo by Meiying Ng on Unsplash
