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Musk sinks Twitter in just a year (This week in books)

October 27, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

This week! Books! I’ll never forget it. When I was on vacation in Hawaii in the late 2000s, I checked my email and it was nothing but “new follower” notifications from Twitter. Sandwiched in between hundreds of these alerts was a congratulations. I’d made Twitter’s inaugural “Who to follow” list. Everyone from Mike Tyson to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bill Watterson, Casey Newton, Diversity, Hugo Awards, Rivka Galchen, Sara Zarr, T. Kingfisher, Twitter

Bill Watterson on life and creativity

August 4, 2014 by Nathan Bransford 11 Comments

I make no secret of my incredible affection for Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, who on the whole is a pretty reclusive author, but when he speaks he makes it count. So two great links to share. In the first, Fast Company pulled four great principles on creativity from his interviews in the movie Stripped. And in […]

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: Bill Watterson, Creativity

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