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Archive for November 2009
How Orhan Pamuk focuses on his core competencies
The Weekend Journal section of today’s WSJ has a round-up of how various novelists crank out their words. It’s a comforting article, in some ways, since it turns out that many of the recent Booker and Pulitzer Prize winners dumped whole books and spent years getting nowhere in the process of creating their masterpieces. A good novel just takes t… read more »
Country Clubs: Stuck in the Rough
This week’s Business Week reported on the financial woes prevalent at private golf clubs. The current crisis many are experiencing is predominantly recession-related. More white-collar workers and executives have lost their jobs in this recession than in previous ones, and when you lose your job, paying thousands of dollars for a golf club membe… read more »
