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Summary of “A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport”

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In the article “A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport” by Charles McGrath something that was pointed out was that a man named Will Self came to New York to discover the city life. The way he explores New York is interesting. The fact that he walked 26 miles from his house to the airport is amazing. The fact that  a lot of people don’t do that or have the same mindset as Mr.Self. As well something that this article covers is the fact that he enjoys exploring New York. Mr.Self likes getting to know what New York is all about. What this article covers most is how Mr.Self goes everyday walking in New York. Which makes readers question whether or not he is obsessed with walking.  The amount of walking he does from certain areas and describes his interactions with other people around the area shows he is trying to react something. As well it ties on how Mr.Self overcomes his challenges which is walking. It states in the article “Alcohol and drugs tend to keep you from taking walk…But I’m not addicted, he said. I don’t need to score a walk”. So what this shows is that how some people are addicted to drugs where in Mr.Self situation he isn’t addicted to walking. It’s the fact that it’s a goal of his to achieve and it happens to be in New York that he achieves it at. The key point from this article is Mr.Self walking. The fact that he walks 20 miles and 26 miles shows that he wants to accomplish something big.

Why Collaborate?

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The article “Why Collaborate” is written by Ellen Lupton who is a curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design museum in New York City and a director of the Graphic design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

In the article Lupton talks about their experience in collaborating with other people, initially he says “I’d love to collaborate, as long as I can work alone”. The tone for this article starts off a bit stand-offish because of past experiences with working with other people. “It can be frustrating, however, when a few people are doing the heavy lifting and others are there only to ‘insure consensus’ or ‘weigh in’ on concepts”. The ideal goal of working in a collaboration is to collectively work together to achieve a specific goal, it can only happen when all members of that group are doing their fair share of the work but Lupton has had a bad experience with collaborating.

Lupton then goes on to talk about their situation in school, “in my own experiences as a student, I have enjoyed voluntary informal collaborations with my friends”. In school, students are generally in a place where collaboration is always happening. Students can provide each other a healthy amount of challenges, inspiration and life hack information that pertains to every day life. Lupton was surprised upon hearing of a group of young architects who have come together with their own unique skills and put them all together to create one spectacular thing. Through out the rest of this article from that point on, the tone changes into something inspiring as Lupton realizes that collaborating doesn’t stop at kids but continues on throughout life.

To give a short synopsis, this article is about the pros and cons of collaborations and why they’re important.