In Personal Stereo, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow takes us back to the birth of the device, exploring legal battles over credit for its invention, its ambivalent reception in 1980s America, and its lasting effects on social norms and public space. But the Walkman was also denounced as self-indulgent and antisocial-the quintessential accessory for the "me" generation. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere.
He is the author of two books, Questionnaire and Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture.
"Kindley's book provides a lucid, distressing look at the backbone of demography.” – The Paris ReviewĮvan Kindley is Senior Humanities Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Evan Kindley's crisp and fleet Questionnaire travels with extraordinary speed from the quaint and idle to the flat-out alarming, with huge implications for our digital culture now and in the future.”–Luc Sante “A marvelous book that gathers an unexpected array of materials … Playful, smart and rich with dizzying connections, Evan Kindley's Questionnaire is no less than a secret history of how we became a nation of oversharers.”–Hua Hsu Join us for an evening with three Object Lessons authors: Evan Kindley, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and Anna Leahy.Ī history of the questionnaire from its inception in the late 19th century to its current online renaissance, surveying a wide range of fields and forms in order to ask questions about the questions we ask ourselves. Object Lessons paints a picture of the world around us, and tells the story of how we got here, one object at a time. Featuring contributions from writers, artists, scholars, journalists, and others, the emphasis throughout is lucid writing, imagination, and brevity. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation-and from that starting point explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Bloomsbury's Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
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