“Each stave has bonus content – an audio reading, an essay by the author. It’s free to subscribe: readers pay for the story after they’ve read it. Once a book gets 5,000 subscribers, a print edition will be published.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Spain’s Most Famous Literary Agent Has To Take On An American Partner
“Nicknamed La Mamá Grande, after a story by Gabriel García Márquez, she served as a confidante and coach, someone who paid her writers’ dentist bills and deftly resolved their domestic problems while promoting the greatest Latin American and Spanish authors across the globe, including Mr. García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and many more.”
What Poetry And Music Share (And Don’t)
“Poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.”
Georgian Opera Star Says The Deeply Homophobic Screed On Her Facebook Was Actually Written By Her Husband
“After the controversy re-emerged this weekend, Iveri issued a statement saying she was ‘shocked and saddened to be called homophobic’ – and that it wasn’t her fault.”
What’s Next In The Campaign To Get The Tony Award For Sound Design Back?
“You have all these events where people are placed inside the playing area—densely immersive and very rich environments in which they literally wouldn’t open the doors if the sound system wasn’t on and all of that stuff wasn’t occurring.”
What’s Lost In The Amazon Vs. Hachette Battle: Book Culture
“Naive as this sounds, doesn’t a bookseller as large as Amazon have a moral responsibility to books? In its early days, founder Bezos saw books more as a foothold for Amazon than a future. But by virtue of its size now, isn’t a business that built its reputation on the back of words obligated not to impede the spread of books?”
Want People To Come To The Symphony? Pick A Damn Theme
“The old overture-concerto-symphony model, with no real relationship among the pieces, gives no identity to a concert, no marketing hook. It’s just another ‘one from column A, one from column B’ mishmash. Slapping alliterative labels for single pieces on concerts — ‘Marvelous Mozart,’ ‘Bombastic Beethoven,’ ‘Ravishing Ravel’ — is pretty lame.”
Should You Go To Art School?
“Let’s face it sometimes it’s not about you; it’s about who you know. Relationships are important to artists and it’s never too soon to start developing them.”
Daniel Radcliffe Was Harry Potter, And Now He’s A Regular Stage Actor – How Did That Happen?
“A year or so ago, he discovered that he had no work to do (for two or three weeks!) and that he had never had a hobby. So he took up rock climbing.”
What Do The Colorblind See When They Look At Colorful Art?
“Walking around the Making Colours exhibition, I was dazzled by the ultramarine blues and daffodil yellows. But was that a big patch of green in Degas’s La Coiffure? The sign said it was red, but my eyes said something different.”