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...only digital media player walking the streets, nor was it the first, but no one has been able to match its ubiquity.But as Apple’s control of the music player industry got more and more totalitarian, our musical taste got more and more democratic. Nirvana took indie mainstream in the 90s, and once the Internet made it cheap for smaller labels and amateur acts to get their music to consumers, it was a sonic free-for-all. MP3 players, MySpace, and Facebook all made it easier to display your taste, as well, and suddenly the hipster...
...When I graduated from HBS 16 years ago, there was no term called ‘social enterprise,’” Silbert said. “It was called the nonprofit sector. I was considered on the fringe and not a part of mainstream business.”John C. Whitehead, a former co-chairman of investment bank Goldman Sachs, cited the public school system as an area in which nonprofit work could make a difference, saying the government has failed “miserably.”Whitehead called on the panel’s audience...
...seems like you're trying to make an argument with this anthology for what defines the "new horror." I thought I could make an interesting book around this thesis that the world of horror was being increasingly absorbed into mainstream writing and was absorbing mainstream writing into itself. There were all these writers, like Kelly Link, who seemed to swing back and forth, or who seemed to be in both places at the same time. This really delighted...
...themselves who are doing something more expansive? I think it's the latter. From [fantasy writers] John Crowley and Jonathan Carroll outwards, there have been these waves of people who wrote as through it were perfectly natural to use horror, or fantasy, or sci-fi approaches and themes in mainstream stories, or vice versa. It seems to me that you get the best of both worlds in that way. And in fact, the ultimate argument I would make is that there is essentially just one world if you're talking about good fiction...
...taken for a fantasy or science fiction writer. In past interviews you have said that you are trying to resist classification. What do you think about that?Jonathan Carroll: Critics and people who run bookstores like to classify things because it makes their jobs easier: Put this in the mainstream section. This is a fantasy novel, etc. Whenever people ask what “kind” of books I write I usually smile and say “mixed salads.” In that I mean a good mixed salad has tomatoes, sliced onion, capers, lettuce...lots...