Forty years ago, Garrison Keillor contributed the following, one of his New Yorker pieces, to a book I produced called Celebrity: The Media as Image Makers. It served as the envoi to the book, which was a collection of essays by twenty-five writers and journalists. The authors were listed on…

by ROBERT RUSSEL As if to prove that Marshall McLuhan wasn’t the only Canadian with a vision of the future, Robert Russel wrote this series of columns on “The Next Medium” for Take One in 1967. They are remarkably prescient, and we have reprinted the entire series so that you…

I’ve always been fascinated by credit card fees. When your bank is already charging you any interest rate they like, why antagonize their customers further with hefty nuisance fees? It doesn’t seem to make marketing sense. …