David Moldawer

Grammar Sticklers and Permissible Bagels

Lynne Rosenthal, a college English professor, was ejected from a Starbucks on Manhattan’s Upper West Side by police after getting into a dispute with a barista—she became enraged when asked whether she’d like butter or cream cheese on her bagel. “I just wanted a multigrain bagel,” Rosenthal told the New York Post. “I refused to [...]

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The Future of the Cover

Here at Portfolio, we’re lucky to have without a doubt one of the best art directors in the industry. If you’re a fan of our books or just follow our “Current and Upcoming Books” updates, you probably have some sense of the incredibly consistent work he delivers for us and our authors, season after season. [...]

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How to be handy

Reason.tv interviews Mark Frauenfelder about the deep satisfaction of making things with your hands, and the value of making lots of mistakes, too: YouTube: Boing Boing Founder Mark Frauenfelder on DIY, Mistakes, and Unschooling

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MADE BY HAND excerpt on Gizmodo

The lovely folks at one of the world’s most popular blogs, Gizmodo, posted an excerpt of Made By Hand today. Even better, they commissioned a terrific illustration of Mark Frauenfelder by the wonderfully talented Nikki Cook. For the full image and the excerpt, head over to Gizmodo.

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The Best Blogs of 2010

Time recently announced its list of the Best Blogs of 2010. Unsurprisingly, Portfolio author Mark Frauenfelder’s Boing Boing made the cut in the Essential category. Congrats, Mark! TIME Best Blogs of 2010 You can download an excerpt of Mark’s new book, Made By Hand, here.

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The birth of a business model: Panera and Pay-What-You-Will

As a business book editor, I’m always surprised at the yawning chasm between business theory and its practice. Sure, there’s a lot of hokum out there in the business category, but there are also so many really great ideas for taking the most humble business—a hardware store, a coffee shop, a garage—and making it something truly [...]

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