Tsilli Pines
Bill Deresiewicz's Excellent Sheep
William Deresiewicz is an essayist and critic based in Portland. He gave a CreativeMornings talk in 2012 about the entrepreneurial ideal among creative millennials and in American society as a whole, based on his essay for the New York Times, Generation Sell. He recently published Excellent Sheep, a manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing. You’ve been making the rounds at universities on your book tour. What’s the reception been like, given that your book takes the whole educational system to task? The reception has been very positive, which, it may surprise you, doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been doing these talks for a bunch of years, and the pattern is always the same. Students...