“We had 50 books to read in the first three months, and a book every other day is fine. Then publishers submitted more. A lot more. My reading speed had to double overnight: between March and July, I will have read the final 100 books in 100 days. You get ahead sometimes (a couple of short books in a row), and then a 900-page monster lurks behind them on the shelf, gobbling up the spare day and spitting out its bones. It’s like running on sand, but less healthy.”
Tag: 05.22.13
CBS Wins US TV Season Ratings
“CBS had a hefty 4 million-viewer lead over its closest competitor this season — the largest margin of any network in 24 years. The network also claimed its first win in 21 years among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers who are the currency of broadcast-TV ad sales.”
Cleveland Orchestra Goes To The (Happy) Dogs
The orchestra plays in a local bar. And the customers like it.
Is A Library Without Paper Books Still A Library?
“It will be a truly bookless library – although that is not a phrase much to the liking of BiblioTech’s project co-ordinator, Laura Cole. She prefers the description “digital library” – after all, there will be books there, but in digital form.”
Dealer At Center Of Knoedler Gallery Scandal Arrested For Tax Fraud
“As alleged, Glafira Rosales gave new meaning to the phrase ‘artful dodger’ by avoiding taxes on millions of dollars in income from dealing in fake artworks for fake clients,” said federal prosecutor Preet Bharara in a statement.
Unpublished Pearl S. Buck Novel To Be Released After 40 Years
“Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is believed to have completed the manuscript for the book, The Eternal Wonder, shortly before she died of cancer in 1973 … The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee.”
How A Theatre Decided To Offer A Money-Back Guarantee
“If we’re a young, innovative, energetic theatre company that is trying to do the best work that we can, why wouldn’t we back our work with something like a money-back guarantee? Are we going to be so afraid of people disliking our work that we will, in fact, lose money on it?”
Study: Classical Audiences Are Not Hostile To Contemporary Music
The researchers found a modern work on the program has roughly the same impact on ticket sales as a lesser-known piece from the romantic era. This suggests exchanging the “risky” First Symphony of John Corigliano with the “safe” First Symphony of Brahms will have little or no impact on the bottom line.
UK’s National Lottery Contributed £390 Million To Arts In 2012
A record-breaking annual spend of almost £7 billion on the National Lottery’s portfolio of games saw donations to the arts growing to £390 million in the year to the end of March.
Tweet Stokes Speculation About Nobel Lit Nominations
“Speculation about the shortlist began almost at once, even though the winner of this year’s Nobel prize in literature won’t be announced until October. 195 names were submitted in March for consideration, including 48 first-timers.”