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Michael Chevy Castranova
Latest Articles by Michael Chevy Castranova
Columns Sep. 28, 2014 1:01 am3995d ago
For many, the hard times that have befallen Radio Shack do not come as a shock, just as we weren’t …
Columns Sep. 14, 2014 1:01 am4009d ago
Isn’t that just the way? You read one thing and you think, yeah, that makes sense. Then you hear something …
Columns Aug. 31, 2014 1:00 am4023d ago
Thirteen years ago, we worked our way through the same contentious debate in newsrooms of newspapers, magazines, TV stations and …
Columns Aug. 17, 2014 1:00 am4037d ago
We think we’re so smart. But life and work keep tapping us on the shoulder to remind us we’re not …
Books Aug. 3, 2014 1:00 am4051d ago
New Yorker cartoons are a lot like what U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said about obscenity – you …
Columns Aug. 3, 2014 1:00 am4051d ago
Studs Terkel suggested that, ‘Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as …
Columns Jul. 20, 2014 1:00 am4065d ago
I saw the signs, but at the time they meant little to me, or I drastically misinterpreted them. The untied …
Columns Jun. 8, 2014 1:00 am4107d ago
Target admitted it had messed up. ‘With the benefit of hindsight, we are investigating whether, if different judgments had been …
Books Jun. 1, 2014 1:00 am4114d ago
Most of us, at one time, get ensnared by John Updike. One of the other editors at my high school …
Columns Apr. 13, 2014 7:00 am4163d ago
The upfront premise of political reporter Lynne Olson’s latest book, ‘Those Angry Days,” is about the struggle for public opinion …
Columns Mar. 30, 2014 7:00 am4177d ago
It’s an enduring rule of thumb in marketing that it helps if the name of your product suggests what it …
Books Nov. 30, 2021 11:57 am1375d ago
As battalions of books roll out this year to mark the 100th anniversary of what came to be known as …
Columns Mar. 16, 2014 7:30 am4191d ago
If you look at it as clear-eyed as a straightforward business story – not as an ideological nor political nor …
News Feb. 26, 2014 7:00 am4209d ago
The story goes that Jay Norwood Darling – the middle name could be a nod to the Michigan town where …
Books Dec. 22, 2013 7:00 am4275d ago
In 2010, Mark Twain, 100 years after his death, became a literary sensation once more with the publication of volume …