What are those publishers saying? Janice Harayda, and Twitter, translate:
“Eminently marketable”: “This author looks fit” – Catherine Fox, author
Month: February 2012
All Apologies – But Only If They’re Sincere, Please
“At their best, public apologies restore relationships or even improve them. At their worst, the perpetrator ends up needing to apologize for the botched attempt and the initial offense, said attorney and business ethics expert Lauren Bloom, author of the Art of the Apology. Even a lousy attempt, however, is better than nothing.”
What’s Happening In Nollywood – And Will Nigeria Find Its Way In World Film?
“Twenty years after bursting from the grungy street markets of Lagos, the $500 million Nigerian movie business churns out more than a thousand titles a year on average, and trails only Hollywood and Bollywood in terms of revenues. The films are hastily shot and then burned onto video CDs, a cheap alternative to DVDs. They are seldom seen in the developed world, but all over Africa consumers snap up the latest releases from video peddlers for a dollar or two.”
Moving Beyond The Library To Become A Center Of Community Life
“With a bit of reverence, librarians carefully wind an antique library clock near the circulation desk in a temple of learning called the Providence Athenaeum. This is one of the oldest libraries in the United States, a 19th-century library with the soul of a 21st-century rave party. In fact, the Rhode Island institution has been called a national model for civic engagement.”
Rammellzee, Re-evaluated: Hip-hop Musician, Science Fiction Hero, Artist?
“His artwork, though he did show it in galleries, at least in the early years, was artwork only secondarily, he said. Its real purpose was to illustrate a deconstructionist-type dual philosophy, called Gothic Futurism and Ikonoklast Panzerism, that imagined a world in which Roman letters would arm and liberate themselves, at his command, from the power structures of European language. He believed he had inherited his role as a kind of lexical commander in chief from medieval monks, whose literacy in a mostly illiterate world demonstrated the extraordinary power of words to shape reality.”
Who Won, And What Did They Say? Full NYT Oscars Coverage
Everything from fashion tweets to speeches to pictures to results, in one big dashboard. (And no, we’re not spoiling any winners if you haven’t seen the show yet.)
Kenneth Price, 77, L.A. Artist Who Transformed The World Of Ceramics
“His organic and geometric forms, use of vibrant colors and provocative installation motifs speak of a thorough knowledge and embrace of critical aspects of ceramic history and its shifting place in art’s continuum. Price’s exquisitely crafted art, often leavened by erotic wit, simply accepted clay’s sculptural bona fides.”
To Understand Architect Oscar Niemeyer, Take An ‘Architour’ Of Brazil
“Though Niemeyer turned 104 in December, a tour of his work isn’t just a history lesson: he is still planning and realising new projects, and with the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics both coming to Brazil, there is no shortage of energy and investment.”
Mikhail Baryshnikov – Now A Photographer Of Dance
As a new show of his photographer opens in Miami, “‘I’m interested in focusing on body parts, the movements which really one cannot notice in the audience,’ says Baryshnikov, 64. He knows what he’s looking for, after all, and he can get a backstage pass anywhere in the world.”
If You Read A Play At A Literary Event, Are You Betraying Theatre?
No. After all, “both poems and fiction (novels and short stories) have their origins as performances, as oral traditions.”