By John Gruber
For 138 years Lady Liberty watched over us — now it’s time to return the favor.
As good a prose stylist as there ever was.
“I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottle, if I had to,” Updike told The Paris Review in 1967. “The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.”
★ Tuesday, 27 January 2009