Megan Power

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

"'I don't like men who leave behind them a trail of weeping women,' said W.H. Auden. Who would have hated you."

Labov's 6 Basic Elements of Storytelling

Classifying and delineating story patterns is a vast field of study, but one of the most influential theories was written in 1972 by socioli...
Birkhoff's Formula for Aesthetic Measure

Paul Octavious' s 51 books on love Mathematician George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) had a keen interest in aesthetics - ...
J.G. Ballard's Death of Affect

British novelist J.G. Ballard wrote the postmodernist classic Crash and coined the phrase "Death of Affect". 'Affect' i...
Barbara Kruger & Futura Bold Oblique

American collage artist Barbara Kruger is internationally famous for superimposing messages in Futura Bold Oblique font on pre-existing ph...
Rob Pruitt's "101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself"

This conceptual art installation currently lives in Venice at the Palazzo Grassi. It's exquisite to read. Rob Pruitt is a New York art...