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Hemingway and Faulkner in twentieth century literature. Frank Lloyd Wright and I.M. Pei in architecture. The romanticism of Andrew Wyeth and the innovation of Andy Warhol. We’re proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Americans in the arts.
Book: The Road
When you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy, you find yourself asking a lot of questions. The main question is, What happened? An unnamed...
Read MoreAdvertising Agency: Wieden+Kennedy
Chances are, you don’t know this agency unless you’re already in the business. But you know their work. If you’re a...
Read MoreArchitecture: Hotel del Coronado
The “Hotel Del,” as it’s colloquially known, isn’t just one of Southern California’s inspired...
Read MoreArchitecture: The Lincoln Memorial
Several wonderful monuments dot Washington, DC to honor past presidents and veterans of our foreign wars. But none are as inspiring,...
Read MoreKid Stuff: Bridge to Terabithia
I read lots of great children’s stories to my boys when they were growing up. Made up quite a few, too. I don’t know if...
Read MoreBook: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who decides which books are the best of all time? Recently, W.W. Norton and Co. (the Norton anthology people) asked 125 of the...
Read MoreArchitecture: The Guggenheim
Isn’t it odd how a unique building can divide people initially, then later be revered as one of the country’s greatest...
Read MorePoet: Robert Frost
Who’s the greatest American poet? Experts might nominate Longfellow … Dickinson … Whitman … Cummings. I’d no doubt go...
Read MoreArtist: Jackson Pollock
Rarely has there been an artist as admired and simultaneously dismissed as Jackson Pollock. An abstract expressionist, Pollock...
Read MoreWriter: David Mamet
David Mamet is one of the all-time masters of film/stage dialogue. His preference for natural conversation, in which characters...
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