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All the Beauty in the World
Patrick Bringley spent ten years working as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. All the Beauty in the World is a wonderful memoir of that time. It’s about art, of course, and about grief and joy and how art reflects them back to us. Continue reading
Posted in Books, History
Tagged art, art history, book review, memoir, museum, nonfiction
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The Worlds I See
Dr. Fei-Fei Li may not be a household name, but for over twenty years she’s been a driving force behind the advancement of artificial intelligence, particularly computer vision and deep learning. Her book, The Worlds I See, is both a personal memoir and a history of AI. Continue reading
On Writing
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft By Stephen King Scribner, New York, 2000 I’ve posted before that there are two kinds of books about writing: those that focus mainly on the craft of writing, and those focused on the … Continue reading
Book Review: To the Castle and Back
In December 1989, when the Communist government was driven from power in Czechoslovakia, the crowds demonstrating in the squares of Prague chanted “Havel na Hrad!” or “Havel to the Castle!” They were calling for the playwright turned dissident Václav Havel … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Politics
Tagged book review, Czech Reputlic, Czechoslovakia, memoir, nonfiction, Prague, Vaclav Havel
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