“Two million out-of-copyright books that have been scanned by Google could come back into limited printed form after the search giant signed a deal with On Demand Books, the company that makes the Espresso Book Machine – a custom book printer able to produce a bound one-off 300-page paperback, with a full-colour cover, in about five minutes.”
Tag: 09.18.09
Why Does The Booker Prize Neglect Science Fiction?
“[Historical novelists] tend to do the same things the modernists did in smaller ways. A good new novel about the first world war, for instance, is still not going to tell us more than Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford. More importantly, these novels are not about now in the way science fiction is.”
Sarah Palin, The Opera
“Come to think of it, Palin seemed ripe for operatic treatment all along. The almost primal passions her candidacy aroused, and the personal and political controversies that dogged it, all fit the recipe for music’s most dramatic form. But it wasn’t the brouhaha that inspired Hughes; it was the sonic possibilities.”
Kansas City Ballet Begins Renovation Of Old Power Station As New HQ
“It has been almost 3½ years since the Kansas City Ballet decided on the Union Station Power House as the site of its new Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity. Now the organization is ready to start transforming the dilapidated historic structure … into an airy work and performance space.”
What Exactly Is An ‘Emerging Playwright’? An Award Committee Struggles To Answer
When Oskar Eustis, Martha Lavey, André Bishop and other theater luminaries tried to decide who should get the Steinberg Trust’s prize for “emerging playwrights,” things got complicated. “Defining ’emerging playwright’ turned out to be like grasping Jell-O.”
Tate Insists It Will Proceed With New Building Despite Lack Of Money
“The Tate says it has secured just £4m of funding in the past 12 months towards building its flagship ‘Tate 2’ glass gallery on the south bank of the Thames – but insists that it will continue with the ambitious development despite a £140m funding shortfall.”
A Newly-Discovered Mozart Score
A French municipal library has discovered a musical score handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in its archives, the Nantes town hall said on Thursday.