Adventures in Research: Klan Signaling

Posted by ractrose on 30 Dec 2017 in Nonfiction

My Curious Reading Adventures in Research Klan Signaling                               Don’t Break Up a Set   An integral aspect of conscientiously preserving history, is not allowing its component parts to become detached from the source. To offer a variation on the well-known […]

On Marketing: Advice for Misfits

Posted by ractrose on 19 Dec 2017 in Nonfiction

My Curious Reading On Marketing: Advice for Misfits                   Misfits Are Made, Not Born   Just as you learn the language (with seeming effortlessness) of your household, you learn social skills by example and teaching, in the home and neighborhood, and don’t learn them if these things […]

On Taste: You and Society (part two)

Posted by ractrose on 12 Dec 2017 in Nonfiction

      My Curious Reading On Taste: You and Society  (part two)             Canonized taste in the matter of poetry.     “A poem has to make me think…contain one striking image…illuminate the struggle of existence through intimate experience…”   Such statements may be gropings after a true value. […]

The Yellow Press: a mini-biography of the Sugar King

Posted by ractrose on 7 Dec 2017 in Nonfiction

My Curious Reading The Yellow Press: part one     The Yellow Press was not a term the reading public coined for journalism; it was a term newspapers used to excoriate one another. The feuds erupted notably in the year 1898, when America entered its war with Spain over Cuba. That same year, the term […]