Here are links to two original and excellent commencement speeches - a genre in which originality is generally shunned, and excellence is regarded as showing off.
David A. McCullough at Wellesley High School:
http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/11903.aspx
Michael Lewis at Princeton University:
http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/michael_lewis_princeton_graduation_speech.html
Enjoy!
Glenn A Knight
In my study
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Reading List: February 2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis.
Access 2003 Bible, by Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Irwin, and Jennifer Reardon.
Lush Life, by Richard Price.
Independence Day, by Richard Ford.
Mohawk, by Richard Russo.
Citizen Vince, by Jess Walter.
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson.
The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva.
Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, by Thomas Hobbes.
A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, par Marcel Proust.
Guided Tours of Hell, by Francine Prose.
A World Lost, by Wendell Berry.
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data, by Stephen Few.
Home, by Marilynne Robinson.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis.
Access 2003 Bible, by Cary N. Prague, Michael R. Irwin, and Jennifer Reardon.
Lush Life, by Richard Price.
Independence Day, by Richard Ford.
Mohawk, by Richard Russo.
Citizen Vince, by Jess Walter.
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson.
The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva.
Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, by Thomas Hobbes.
A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, par Marcel Proust.
Guided Tours of Hell, by Francine Prose.
A World Lost, by Wendell Berry.
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data, by Stephen Few.
Home, by Marilynne Robinson.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Reading List: January 2012
In alphabetical order by author:
Berry, Wendell. Jayber Crow.
Child, Lee. The Affair.
Drake, David. Out of the Waters.
Harvey, Greg. Excel 2003 for Dummies.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil.
Kaufeld, John. Access 2002 for Dummies.
Lewis, Michael. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.
Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President.
Prague, Cary, Michael R. Irwin, and Jennifer Reardon. Access 2003 Bible.
Price, Richard. Lush Life.
Prose, Francine. My New American Life.
Proust, Marcel. A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs.
Sjowall, Maj, and Per Wahloo. The Laughing Policeman.
Walter, Jess. Citizen Vince.
Zola, Emile. Germinal.
Fifteen books, nine of them novels. Three of them technical works. One work of history, one of journalism, and one of political philosophy.
The earliest of these books was published in the 17th century, the most recent in 2011. Two of them are in French, and one was written in Swedish before being translated into English. (The Laughing Policeman is the only book whose original language was not English ever to win an Edgar Award.)
A number of these books are well-written. Undoubtedly the best-written of them all is Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry, a Kentucky author. The least satisfactory is Lush Life, by Richard Price, a novel I feel did not live up to its advance notices.
Berry, Wendell. Jayber Crow.
Child, Lee. The Affair.
Drake, David. Out of the Waters.
Harvey, Greg. Excel 2003 for Dummies.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil.
Kaufeld, John. Access 2002 for Dummies.
Lewis, Michael. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.
Millard, Candice. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President.
Prague, Cary, Michael R. Irwin, and Jennifer Reardon. Access 2003 Bible.
Price, Richard. Lush Life.
Prose, Francine. My New American Life.
Proust, Marcel. A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs.
Sjowall, Maj, and Per Wahloo. The Laughing Policeman.
Walter, Jess. Citizen Vince.
Zola, Emile. Germinal.
Fifteen books, nine of them novels. Three of them technical works. One work of history, one of journalism, and one of political philosophy.
The earliest of these books was published in the 17th century, the most recent in 2011. Two of them are in French, and one was written in Swedish before being translated into English. (The Laughing Policeman is the only book whose original language was not English ever to win an Edgar Award.)
A number of these books are well-written. Undoubtedly the best-written of them all is Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry, a Kentucky author. The least satisfactory is Lush Life, by Richard Price, a novel I feel did not live up to its advance notices.
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