Archive - The Ancient and the Ultimate

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May 25 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

Reclaiming Creativity

From Hollywood's downfall to Rick Rubin's vision

May 21 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

Reading Routines and the Joy of John McPhee

In order to keep relatively current with the goings on in this busy world of ours, I subscribe to a number of print magazines, which arrive throughout…

May 17 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

Four Libraries, Three Books

Book I remember reading in libraries I've haunted

May 14 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

Catalysts, Clusters, and Cryptonomicon

How one (or two, or ten) books sometimes helps another

May 10 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

Books Can Take You Anywhere

But sometimes, the book is better.

May 7 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

The Ancient and the Ultimate

Fifty years after Asimov's essay on books, we still strive for the ultimate while prizing the ancient.

May 3 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

April 2024

The Pages of Our Years

On the joys and sorrows of reading biographies

Apr 30 •

Jamie Todd Rubin

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