“Library bureaucrats aren’t books. A single author isn’t the written word. We in the book business are paid poorly for our work, so we tend to inflate the importance of our jobs to the point where any negativity aimed at us becomes an assault on the worthy cause to which we’ve fed large and juicy chunks of our lives: literature, and books, and ideas.”
Tag: 03.08.14
Canada Gets Its Version of the U.S. Justice Dept.’s E-Book Price-Fixing Suit
“Kobo is beginning to feel the pinch of prospective lower profit margins in Canada. The Canadian Government is forcing them to renegotiate contracts with all of their major publishing partners.”
Why China Will Partner With Disney
“While the Chinese film market is booming – box office was $3.6 billion last year and is expected to reach $4.6 billion in 2014 – there is still a feeling among domestic filmmakers that scripts need to improve, production needs to become more professional and the industry generally needs to learn from the Hollywood model.”
Movie Moguls Say They’d Really *Like* To Film In California, But …
Show them the money. Harvey Weinstein: “There’s no reason for us not to shoot here, except when you do the numbers here and when you do the numbers in New Orleans, it is much more attractive financially.”
London’s A City In Thrall To Money And Greed
“Recently a former biscuit factory in Bermondsey that was home to 400 artists was sold to convert it into 800 high-end flats. The colour in the capital that comes from the energy and creativity of artists, among others, is drained.”
How Did A Famous Novelist Get Sucked Into A Psychopath’s Lies And Life?
Walter Kirn: “Here’s the problem: I’d met rich eccentrics at Princeton and Oxford. If I’d never met one, I probably would have seen through him — but because I’d met them and they were so crazy, he just seemed like another crazy one of them.”
Does It Matter If You Can’t Remember Your 20s While You’re Writing Your Famous-Artist Memoir?
“Hirst will be neither the first author nor the last to invent portions of his memoirs. In fact, it’s pretty unfair to expect to anyone to really remember their own life particularly accurately, without going around scribbling on their body like Guy Pearce in Memento.”
The Perfect Performance (One That The Actor Can’t Remember)
“I had this feeling of complete ecstasy,” actor Ed Harris says. “It’s probably the most high I’ve been ever, in any way.”
Why We Should Listen More To This Bach (His Name Is Carl)
“Bach’s restless, radical new style fits within history — with the upheaval of the Seven Years’ War, the shifting of nations and the Enlightenment, which encouraged individualism.”
Wrangling Insects In The Service Of Art
“Any fool could put a bucket of cockroaches on a table. But it takes somebody knowledgeable to know how to make them act for a camera.”