Become a Member

Posts by author

George Pendle

George Pendle, a regular contributor to Cabinet, has written for the Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. He is the author of Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (Harcourt, 2005), The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (Three Rivers Press, 2007), and Death: A Life (Three Rivers Press, 2008). He is currently writing an in-depth study of airport carpeting.
  • ,
    George Pendle

    To Sit, to Stand, to Write

    Ever since Nietzsche’s declaration, there has been some disagreement among writers, thinkers, doctors, and designers as to whether inspiration and creativity come from being seated and quiescent, or from being upright and vigorous.