How The Internet Has Changed Self-Publishing

“In this time of Twitter feeds and self-designed Snapfish albums and personal YouTube channels, it’s hard to remember the stigma that once attached to self-publishing. But it was very real. By contrast, to have a book legitimately produced by a publishing house in the 20th century was not just to have copies of your work bound between smart-looking covers. It was also metaphysical.”

A Revolution In Poetry

“Without obvious fanfare, over the past 10 to 20 years a seismic change in publishing has occurred: Poetry has become our fastest-growing literary cottage industry, relying less on legions of editors in New York and elsewhere to shape literary tastes than on the energy and inventiveness of the poets themselves.”

The Star Architects And Cancer

“The Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres put the seriousness of architecture to the test. They are notable for two things: offering ways of helping cancer sufferers beyond medical treatment, and doing so in places designed by leading contemporary architects. They assume that there is some connection between whatever aesthetic magic an architect can weave, and making victims of a dread disease feel better.”

Paul Taylor At 80

“Paul Taylor laughs out loud when he sums up how critics responded to his early, out-there choreography: ‘This terrible boy has ruined our evening!’ He can well afford to laugh. The Paul Taylor Dance Company is now 56 years old, a stable, permanent exception in the seat-of-the-pants world of modern dance.”