“I image we’d see chaos and bloodshed in Shubert Alley if it was somehow passed over, the likes of which New York hasn’t witnessed since the Astor Place Riot of 1849, with Lin-Manuel Miranda pleading with his fans for some sanity.”
Tag: 04.15.16
A 66-Year-Old Poet Suddenly Catches Fire With Pop Culture
“Myles has a theory about her resurgent popularity — you might call it the Theory of the Bad Copy, which posits that most people who are breaking with the past do so by presenting initially as bad copies of an accepted person.”
For The First Time, The British Get A Series That Streams Before It Broadcasts On Regular TV
“We have to recognise that young people don’t watch TV the way we did. … It’s very much in the spirit of New Blood that the show will premiere on iPlayer.”
How Being Cool Has Ruined Berlin
“Somebody must have written about my street on their viral travel blog. Now I had the whole world at my doorstep; I just didn’t have Berlin anymore.”
How The Author Of Wolf Hall Actually Gets Her Writing Done
“I used to be a late starter, but now I get up in the dark like a medieval monk, commit unmediated scribble to a notebook, and go back to bed about six, hoping to sleep for another two hours and to wake slowly and in silence. Random noise, voices in other rooms, get me off to a savage, disorderly start, but if I am left in peace to reach for a pen, I feel through my fingertips what sort of day it is.”
Portrait Of The 100-Year-Old, Still Working Artist
“Her age and lack of mobility — she no longer gets out of the house regularly and has live-in round-the-clock care — have forced a series of adjustments to her work habits. Far from undermining her project, however, these concessions have served to highlight the conceptual nature of her work.”
How Peoria (Yes, Peoria) Got A Ballet Company
“Creating a ballet company in Peoria in 1965 was difficult. Ballet was not particularly popular then, and even less popular in stodgy Peoria.”
How To Become The Best Bookstore In The World
“Our biggest year was when Borders closed. … We got a huge onflow from that!”
James Levine’s Best Moments From Decades At The Met
“Levine built the Met Orchestra into one of the world’s great ensembles. And, more than any other mainstream figure, Levine has used his position to gradually expand American appreciation of the form.”
The Man Who Chronicled A Youth Revolution
“For me, photography is all about youth. … It’s about a happy world full of joy, not some kid crying on a street corner or a sick person.”