After British Petroleum merged with Amoco, the oil giant commissioned branding firm Landor & Associates and advertising agency Oglivy & Mather to fashion a corporate identity that would convey the image of a forward-thinking, socially conscious company. BP had already begun building that persona: After all, former CEO Lord John Browne was the first oil [...]

My first encounter with John O’Hara’s writing began in my senior year in high school, when I bought a paperback edition of Sermons and Soda Water at the Rexall drugstore in Encinitas. The three short novellas in the book gave me a view of an unknown world, a world that exposed relationships between men and [...]