Arts and Letters: HodgePodge for Oct. 18

​Books and movies and music and mansions, oh my. Here’s what we’ve been reading around the Hodges office this week.

How do you get to the corner office?

What’s the connection between studying music and professional success? My theory is that it teaches you to persevere through failure. If you’ve heard a middle-schooler practice the clarinet, you know exactly what I mean.

Yo! NPR raps

NPR’s The Record takes a look back at what turned out to be a pivotal year in rap (and pop) music: 1993.

Quite a block

You think you’re having a bad first-world problem when you spill your four-dollar latte. Imagine how San Francisco’s old money felt when newly minted tech billionaires started to overrun their posh neighborhood? Be sure to check out the interactive map, as well.

Scary Carrie

With the release of the new remake of Stephen King’s Carrie, it’s interesting to take a look back at how his first blockbuster novel almost never happened.

Handbasket dot net

David Byrne says our new connected world is bad for creativity, but not for the reasons you might think.

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