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Small Losses, Likely Unnoticed (or, Bauhaus Bon Voyage)

My regular commute involves time on the mostly unremarkable stretch of Olentangy River Road between Dodridge and North Broadway. I say mostly unremarkable because there are but three features that distinguish it from any of the other four lane roads in Columbus dotted with hotels, chain restaurants, and car friendly retail. They are the Clinton Predestinarian Baptist Church at Dodridge and Olentangy, Union Cemetery, and a modest Bauhaus-by-way-of Richard Neutra inspired office building that's stood its ground since, oh, I don't know, 1965 or so. Wait...a what? Where? Yeah, the building at the entrance to Kohl's, the one that looks like a rectangular box with another rectangular box stacked sideways on top of it, the building with the crazy carport, the building you probably never looked twice at. That building, in its low-slung and unobtrusive way, was actually a pretty dramatic bit of period architecture.  Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not like Architectu...

Publishing Trends: Top Non Fiction Titles for 2017

Publishing houses are already exploring the impact of November's election on our national conversation. To that end, here's just a sampling of the non-fiction titles we can expect in the new year:   What to Set on Fire: Essays and Actions for a New America Punching Down, Moving Up: Harness the Power of Racism and Misogyny to Achieve Career Success At Least I Didn't Live to See the Day: Phil Ochs in the 21st Century "It Weren't Raycess": Explaining Your Trump Vote to People of Color The Only Green that Matters: Megaprofits in an Age of Environmental Collapse Flying High: Drones, Firearms and the Inviolability of the Second Amendment Fake News is Good News Plundering Toward Armageddon: a Guide to Graft in the Age of Trump Power Words: 1001 Slurs, Slights and Epithets You Can Start Using Today! Forms of Address: Revised and Updated