Weekly Round-Up: Howard Zinn, WALDEN, and Stephen King
From a book-banning bill to Stephen King’s new collaboration, here’s the latest literary news.
Walden Pond
The Ploughshares Round-Down: “Not Everything We Need Is In Ourselves”
Creation is often imagined as inherently isolated and intimate: a Walden Pond-esque activity improved by seclusion and destroyed by wifi, phone calls, and . . . well, friends. So I’ve been thrilled this month to see a few books being celebrated for challenging the Lone Genius Myth: Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators, Joshua Wolf Shenk’s Powers of Two, and Stephen Johnson’s How…