"This is a rare and wonderful book on
par with some of the masterpieces of centuries
past."
Beth
Hartford, Amazon.com Top 100 Reviewer
"You must see this book for yourself. I am at a
loss as to how to best describe it."
Foster Corbin, Attorney and
former English Instructor
"Bursting with information and ideas."
Milton Glaser, world
renowned graphic designer
Chapter 1
The First Generation In this provocative opening chapter — described by one early reader as a "battle cry for the coming generation of writers" — you will discover:
- Why best-selling author Erica Jong’s comments mark the end of the old way of reading and writing — in black and white.
- How best-selling author Amy Tan’s vision for a future of digitally illuminated manuscripts is about to be realized
- What makes this new opportunity for a new generation of writers truly unique
"I have heard so many say that such a Golden Age is behind us or even beyond us. Yet ours is the first generation since the advent of writing with the technology to write in color. When I imagine our novels and poems in color, I become baldy, ribaldly, optimistic. I believe that a Botticelli of the Book, a Michelangelo of Multimedia, will some day come. We, the First Generation, have hit the biggest jackpot in literary history. Our Golden Age is literally ahead of us. There has never been a better time to be a writer."
Chapter 10 The Gutenberg Cliché
In this paradigm-challenging chapter — described by several readers as a "revelation" — you will discover:
- The dramatic difference in how books looked before, during, and after Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press
- How writers such as Dante, Virgil, Plutarch, Augustine, Aristotle, Aquinas and Boccaccio were dramatically transformed by the printing press
- How Gutenberg’s printing press caused the demise of colorfully illuminated manuscripts
- How Montaigne invented a new medium after the printing press, and how writers today are poised to do the same
- How writers of antiquity used variation in color, type size, and page layout to achieve dramatic effects on the page
“It was a pivotal moment in human history when all of Europe, and indeed much of the world, switched from a manuscript to a print tradition. But as we see in this section, the printing press had an enormous impact not only on the dissemination of information, but also on its appearance. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Mayans, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and Medieval Europeans all had a very different view of the written word. But a s a new generation of readers rediscovers the lush visual literature of the past, they will ask: “With all our marvelous new technologies, why can’t our books look like that?” And the answer is, “Soon they will.”
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