art and culture

Art & Culture: A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work by Miranda K. Pennington

December 5, 2017 admin 0

Passionate readers understand that a wonderful book — one that resonates strongly — can leave a lasting impression. Can, in fact, sometimes change your life. That is the premise, and in fact that glue that binds, of A Girl Walks Into A Book (Seal) by writer and essayist Miranda K. Pennington. The author was a voracious reader at 10 when her father gave her a copy of Jane Eyre. It was not love at first […]

Authors on Snacks: Dylan Brody

October 24, 2017 admin 0

Does creativity have a taste? And, if it does, is the taste more chocolate or saurkraut? January Magazine’s “Authors on Snacks” is not meant to be a judgment. Rather it’s a personal peek at what some of our most beloved authors nibble on while pushing forward on their latest work. This time out we talk with author, humorist, playwright and comedian Dylan Brody. Brody’s latest book, The Modern Depression Guidebook, is the opposite of a […]

Art & Culture: Evolution: The Whole Story
edited by Steve Parker

October 16, 2015 admin 0

Whatever picture you are building in your mind about Evolution: The Whole Story (Firefly), rebuild it. This book is bigger, more complete, denser of thought and material and more brilliantly illustrated than anything you are imagining. As the title promises, this <i>is</i> the whole story. Full stop. Editor Steve Parker is a senior scientific fellow of the Zoological Society of London and the author of hundreds of books including The Encyclopedia of Sharks and Planet-Ape. […]