| Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: Second Thoughts on the Electronic Revolution Contributor(s): Henderson, Bill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0916366200 ISBN-13: 9780916366209 Publisher: Pushcart Press OUR PRICE: $11.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1996 Annotation: For readers who sometimes feel as though they've sacrificed their souls to a constant quest for speed, entertainment, and convenience, Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club reveals what electronic madness has truly wrought. Through letters, essays, news clips, poems, cartoons, and testimonials, contributors--including Andre Codrescu, Alvin Toffler, and Russell Baker--suggest how mindfulness, sanity, and simplicity can be restored. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.803 |
| LCCN: 96067278 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 7" W x 6.93" (0.75 lbs) 235 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Have you just junked your most recent, instantly obsolete, computer? Are you thinking of buying your first computer? Do you find that your business and personal life have been invaded by a bewildering array of electronics--from voice and E-mail to faxes and televisions with hundreds of channels to the wildly hyped Internet and World Wide Web? Do you suffer from info-overload? Do you sometimes think we have lost our souls in a constant quest for speed, entertainment, and convenience? The Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club is a dynamic record of an ongoing meeting of minds from as far away as Tasmania, India, and Austria and as close to home as California and New York. Contributors include Russell Baker, Neil Postman, David Gelernter, Wendell Berry, Sven Birkerts, Mark Slouka, Clifford Stoll, Doris Grumbach, Andre Codrescu, and others, with comments by John Updike, Robert Hughes, Henry David Thoreau, E. Annie Proulx, Alvin Toffler, Dave Barry, Edmund Morris, Farley Mowat, Ted Koppel, Nicholson Baker, Paul Goodman, Gary Snyder, Kirkpatrick Sale, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, plus letters and news items from around the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Henderson, Bill: - "Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore - "the world's smallest bookstore."" |