After fleeing to the UK from Vienna in 1938, “he founded his publishing house with Nigel Nicolson in 1949 … He published big-name authors from Charles de Gaulle to Pope John Paul II and Henry Kissinger … In 1959, Weidenfeld & Nicolson risked obscenity laws to publish Lolita.”
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Conductor Bernard Labadie Makes His Way Back After Stage Four Lymphoma
After the diagnosis in May of 2014 began “a grueling convalescence that included bouts of chemotherapy so violent that the founder of Les Violons du Roy was placed in a coma the following November. Only last month, more than a year after awakening, did Labadie return to the podium.”
A Meet-And-Greet With The Elusive Banksy! Who Could Resist?
It all started late last year, when a Facebook event surfaced promising that Banksy would show up for a “meet and greet” at the Waldorf Astoria — with the first hundred guests receiving “a free face painting from the scoundrel himself!!”
‘They Were A Model To Me’: Patti Smith On Frida Kahlo And Diego Rivera
“They helped me really prepare for my life with Robert [Mapplethorpe]. These were two artists who believed in one another, and each trusted the other as a shepherd of their art. And that was worth fighting for through their love affairs and fights and disappointments and arguments. They always came back to each other through work. They were lost without each other.”
Seven Fierce Fistfights From Art History, From Michelangelo To Julian Schnabel
“When we think of creative people getting into fights, writers usually are the first that come to mind – Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Jack London, etc.” Hyperallergic stands up for visual artists, with examples from Caravaggio beating a pimp to death to two of Picasso’s mistresses wrestling to two examples of painters punching out art critics.
The Breakthrough Moment: Performers, Artists, Writers, Chefs, And Even A Poker Champ Explain When They Realized What They Were Meant To Do
“The moment when: George Clooney did Sid & Nancy; Don Rickles discovered heckling; George Saunders transformed a dream and a bottle of Boone’s Farm into a short story; Dan Barber tasted his first soft-scramble; Errol Morris learned to listen; Dita von Teese realized she wasn’t Pamela Anderson; Jon Favreau’s all-nighter paid off; and other creative epiphanies.”
Critic Michael Feingold Asked By New Owners Of Village Voice To Return
“I was asked to return because the new management believes that the old spirit of the Village Voice — where writers of knowledge, experience, and deep reflection flourished — might be worth preserving.”
What Orson Welles Really Thought Of Ernest Hemingway
“Welles lived in Spain in the 1960s, returning there throughout the last 20 years of his life, but became exasperated by what he saw as the touristic legacy of Hemingway’s work.”
David Bowie Was Practically Invisible In The New York He Loved So Much
“‘He traveled with this cloak of invisibility — nobody saw him,’ Mr. Guare said. ‘He just eradicated himself.'”
Remembering The Fierce, Kind, Elegant Poet C.D. Wright
“She’ll be grieved in the public ways well-known writers are, but within the poetry community — on Facebook, Twitter, via text and email and phone — a kind of keening wail has sounded since the news of her death began to spread. Wright was beloved to many of us, a model poet and person.”