You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to . From David Byrne’s Publishers/Penguin Group (USA)/Viking: Bicycle Diaries is David Byrnes celebration of seeing the world from the seat of a bike. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. ObserverDavid Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” 7 BICYCLE DIARIES: A COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY OF CITIES In 2009, Byrne published his. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present Sytze Steenstra. The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 2, 2010February 6, 2011. This auction is for a signed, new and unread copy of Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne. MONA FOMA Festival, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, January 1519, 2014. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. Group Presentation, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York, March 13April 24, 2021. About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: