by Dwight Cathcart | Oct 13, 2015 | Books, The Gay Revolution
Professor E. K. Johnston, acting dean of the School of Journalism, in an auditorium of the University of Missouri, stands on stage and gives out awards at the end of the term to students at the school and congratulates each of them as they are honored. He then gets in...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jun 1, 2015 | Books, books, Bookstores, Daniel D'Addario, eBooks, Freedom, Publishing, Writing
The issues introduced by the digital revolution are not going away. We were having brunch when one of the men at the table—I forget what led up to this—said that he didn’t read ebooks because he didn’t enjoy the experience of holding the tablet computer in his hands....
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 29, 2013 | Books
Three days after the bombing at the finish line, something happened of a very different kind, but which got little attention in the press. The Digital Public Library of America opened online and is now available—even if in a limited way—at URL dp.la. Type in those...
by Dwight Cathcart | Jan 21, 2011 | A single man
I read A Single Man—about George Falconer’s grief—when I was in school in the late sixties, and I don’t think I liked it much. At twenty-five I didn’t know what grief was, so I didn’t know it when I stumbled on it. I also didn’t know what this story had to do with my...
