“Recent scandals within the business community of massive malfeasance have been well publicized. Many nonprofits have received largesse from the same business leaders who perpetrated accounting, financial, and economic scandals. As a result, nonprofit organizations must be forearmed and ready to react upon the revelation that a donor once perceived to be clean is now tainted.”
Tag: 08.11
How Can You Tell When A Mystery Genre Book Has Gone Post-Modern?
Turns out there’s a series of memes in play…
Goodbye Post-Modernism (What Was That All About?)
On 24th September, we can officially and definitively declare that postmodernism is dead. Finished. History. A difficult period in human thought over and done with. How do I know this? Because that is the date when the Victoria and Albert Museum opens what it calls “the first comprehensive retrospective†in the world: “Postmodernism—Style and Subversion 1970-1990.â€
That Rule About Writing What You Know? Don’t Follow It
Bret Anthony Johnston: “To be perfectly clear: I don’t tell students not to ferret through their lives for potential stories. … What I don’t want – and what’s prone to happen when writers set out to write what they know – is for him to think an imagined story is less urgent, less harrowing or authentic, than a true story.”
The Beer Archaeologist
Patrick McGovern analyzes the traces of residue left on various ancient vessels for brewing and drinking beer. Then he reconstitutes the recipes and has brewers use them to recreate the brews of antiquity.