Zaeth Ritter Arenas, music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Sinaloa de las Artes in Culiacán, was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery on Sept. 27 but died a week later. (in Spanish; Google-translated version here)
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Ernest Hemingway In Love
An excerpt from A.E. Hotchner’s memoir of how Hemingway’s affair with Pauline Pfeiffer changed his life and his writing.
Olga Hirshhorn, 95, Art Collector And Wife Of Museum Founder
“The widow of the founder of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden … was well known as an exuberant, energetic and enthusiastic art patron, philanthropist and collector in her own right.”
James Patterson Wants To Give An Indie Bookstore Worker A Big Bonus
The bestselling author and benefactor of booksellers and libraries announced Wednesday that he will give away a total of $250,000 US, with payments ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. Everyone from store owners and managers to authors and patrons are eligible to nominate a current employee by answering the question “Why does this bookseller deserve a holiday bonus?”
Filmmaker Chantal Akerman, 65, Dead In Possible Suicide
Director and/or writer of more than 40 films, Akerman is most famous for her 1975 work Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, a three-hour dissection of three days in the life of an ordinary young widow in Brussels – and a film that, many observers argue, changed cinema history.
Andre Previn: I’m Always After Something New
“I love writing and I’m very serious about it, but when it’s over, it’s over. It’s not for the ages. I can’t visualize anybody doing my pieces 50 years from now. I’m just glad if they do them Wednesday.”
Why Creative People Tend To Be Lonely
it’s not that creative people are simply hopeless at relationships — or at least it’s not only that. “When you read the big headlines about creativity, it’s touted as the golden key to success for businesses, whether it’s small entrepreneurial ventures or the big behemoths. But there’s a cost, and the cost is that because you’re so infatuated by the limitless potential or ideas at the beginning of development . . . you’ve chewed up a lot of brain space.”
The High-Wire Walker Who Has A Plan To Take Over The Entertainment World
“He has to pause and kneel on the wire several times, his monitor and headset mic keep slipping off his ear — of all the things that could kill him right now, indulging in light banter has shot to the top of the list.”
Toni Morrison Reads The (Print) New York Times With A Pencil To Correct And Comment
“The exercise would seem fitting for the former Random House editor, but it’s really a response to what she perceives as the media becoming more ‘manipulative’ with words.”
Henning Mankell, Who Made Scandinavian Noir Big With His Wallender Series, Dies At 67
“Mr. Mankell, whose grandfather was a composer, passed on his love of classical music to his famous detective. Wallander spends many lonely nights listening to Mozart operas or walking the windswept beaches of Ystad with his dog, Jussi — named after Jussi Bjorling, the great Swedish tenor.”