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Goodbye Gutenberg

Valerie Kirschenbaum

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ISBN: 0974575038

Summary

Goodbye Gutenberg takes you on a journey where no writer has ever taken you before. Author Valerie Kirschenbaum not only dreams of a Renaissance “the likes of which the world has never seen,” she gives you the actual blueprint. In warm and intimate prose, she shows you how and why we will experience this Renaissance in our lifetime. Responding to the recent National Endowment for the Arts survey, which documented a precipitous, 20-year decline in America’s reading habits, she presents an electrifying new solution for captivating a generation of readers reared on television, movies and music videos.

With 860 gorgeous, full color images from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Maya, India, China, Japan, Tibet, and medieval Europe (many never seen by an American audience), Kirschenbaum provides what world renowned graphic designer Milton Glaser described as “the visual history of the universe and its relationship to writing.” She combines the breathtaking beauty of illuminated manuscripts with today’s latest technologies to create a scintillating multisensory experience.

Valerie Kirschenbaum

A 12 year veteran of New York City public schools, Valerie Kirschenbaum currently teaches at Wings Academy in the Bronx. She received grants to study the application of color and design to literature from the International Reading Association and the Children for Children's Fund. She received her B.A. in American Literature and Education from Hofstra University and her M.A. from William Patterson University. Among her many accomplishments, she is the first female writer in 500 years to design a font for her own book and the inventor of the new genre of "designer writing." Goodbye Gutenberg is her first book.