The Lavin Agency Speakers Blog

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"Finding value from data is much more a process of cultivation than it is one of extraction or refinement…This re-framing of data into a human context is crucial."

Jer Thorp, Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times, in The Harvard Business Review.

#Jer Thorp #The New York Times #New York Times #NYT #Harvard Business Review #HBR #The Harvard Business Review #The HBR #big data #data #data art #data artist #quote

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Congratulations to Lavin Speakers Paul Tough and Edward O. Wilson, on having their books named to The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2012 list! Tough’s book, How Children Succeed, argues that we need to revolutionize our education system to focus on developing a child’s character as well as their intelligence. Wilson’s book, The Social Conquest of Earth, is fascinating look at how humanity’s interactions with each other—and with the world around them—have led to our species’ domination of the planet.

#Paul Tough #Edward O. Wilson #E.O. Wilson #How Children Succeed #The Social Qonquest of Earth #books #NYT #The New York Times #New York Times #100 Notable Books of 2012 #The New York Times Book Review #New York Times Book Review #NYT Book Review

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"In Paul Tough’s essential book, “How Children Succeed,” he describes [how] … childhood stress can have long lasting neural effects, making it harder to exercise self-control, focus attention, delay gratification and do many of the other things that contribute to a happy life."

David Brooks, citing Paul Tough’s new bestselling book How Children Succeed in The New York Times.

#Paul Tough #David Brooks #NYT #The New York Times #op-ed #education #children #childhood #How Children Succeed

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"Culturally, we tend to associate leadership with extroversion and attach less importance to judgment, vision and mettle. We prize leaders who are eager talkers over those who have something to say."

Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts, on the introverted nature of both Presidential candidates in her latest New York Times Op-Ed.

#Susan Cain #introvert #2012 election #Obama #Romney #leadership #quote #New York Times #The New York Times #NYT #op-ed #extrovert #introversion #extroversion #Quiet: The Power of Introverts

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In his latest New York Times Op-Ed, investigative journalist Kurt Eichenwald (author of The Informant and Conspiracy of Fools) asks: How much information did the Bush administration have prior to the attack, and could they have acted on it? Eichenwald explains more in this interview with CBS News.

#Kurt Eichenwald #Eichenwald #CBS #CBS News #The New York Times #NYT #New York Times #Op-Ed #9/11 #September 11th #September 11 #George W. Bush

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Hanna Rosin’s New York Times Magazine cover story, “Who Wears the Pants in This Economy?”, examines our changing social climate—where women are becoming the breadwinners of the household, and are outperforming men academically. “Of the 15 categories [of employment] projected to grow the fastest by 2016,” writes Rosin, “12 are dominated by women.”

#Hanna Rosin #Rosin #New York Times #The New York Times #New York Times Magazine #The New York Times Magazine #New York Times Mag #NYT #NYT magazine #NYT mag #women #economy #gender #feminism #social change #work #workforce

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"It allows one to be playful, to get a sense of what is on a lot of people’s minds at any given moment."

Salman Rushdie, quoted in The New York Times essay “Why Authors Tweet.”

#Salman Rushdie #twitter #tweets #The New York Times #books #authors

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Today, The New York Times ran a major feature on Lavin speaking agent Rachel Rosenfelt and her website, The New Inquiry. TNI has been “catching the eye of the literary elite” and “earning praise that sounds as extravagantly brainy as the thesis-like articles that [it] uploads every few days.” Here’s Jonathan Lethem, singing the praises of Rachel and her writers:

They’re the precursor of this kind of synthesis of extrainstitutional intellectualism, native to the Internet, native to the city dweller. They’re not trapped within an old paradigm. They’re just making it their own.

#Rachel Rosenfelt #Rosenfelt #The New Inquiry #New York Times #The New York Times #New York City #literature #journalism #speaking agent #Lavin Agent #lavin staff

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Notes Steven Pinker’s latest, The Better Angels of Our Nature, has already received widespread acclaim and was named as one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of the Year. In fact, it’s Nicholas Kristof’s pick to win the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

Steven Pinker’s latest, The Better Angels of Our Nature, has already received widespread acclaim and was named as one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of the Year. In fact, it’s Nicholas Kristof’s pick to win the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

#Steven Pinker #Pinker #The Better Angels of Our Nature #New York Times #The New York Times #Nicholas Kristof #Pulitzer Prize

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"I liked standing in line for a couple of hours trying to get ‘Blonde on Blonde’ and having no idea what was going to be on it. I liked standing in line to see ‘Psycho,’ having no idea what’s going to happen, except for the poster. That’s the way I like it, and I try my best, even in the present culture, to present our work like that."

Patti Smith, to A.O. Scott of the New York Times, on why she’s keeping relatively mum about her new album.

#Patti Smith #Smith #New York Times #The New York Times #music #album #albums #music journalism