“To a large extent, it really is the best of times for publishing. We have a lot of potential to connect more people with more ideas more efficiently and quickly than ever before. We have more people reading and writing than ever before, though (like publishing) literacy skies are also in a permanent downward trajectory according to generations of chickens little.”
Tag: 06.14.12
You Think The Beckett Estate Is Difficult To Deal With? Check Out The Joyce Estate
The James Joyce estate, headed by the author’s grandson Stephen, has gone so far as to get a program celebrating James Joyce banned from Irish radio and to forbid Kate Bush to use even a few lines of Ulysses in a song; Stephen even tried to prevent the National Library of Ireland from exhibiting some of its own Joyce manuscripts. James Joyce biographer Gordon Bowker explains the difficulties.
How Literary Agents Are Using Twitter To Find Talent
“There have been more than 101,000 tweets since the beginning of the year in which a Twitter user said he or she was writing a book or novel. Levine says that Twitter offers a way for an agent to do a little research and determine if a writer actually has the chops in a given genre.”
A Magazine (App) For The Most Famous News Aggregator
“Huffington, the new magazine from the Huffington Post, is something of a contradiction. As a website, the Huffington Post is a catchall that values speed and timeliness in its stories and blogs. It’s free. It’s thoroughly Internet-y. Huffington (make that “Huffington.” with the period, on the cover), on the other hand, is a deliberate experience, a weekly magazine with deep features and stories breaking four digits in word count. It’s on the iPad, and, after a brief trial period, it’ll be a paid product.”
Stop Whinging: Publishing’s Doing Quite Well (Seriously)
“To a large extent, it really is the best of times for publishing. We have a lot of potential to connect more people with more ideas more efficiently and quickly than ever before. We have more people reading and writing than ever before.” And specific examples abound.
Report: California Not Doing Enough To Retain Film Production
“California cannot and should not match states that are providing the highest level of tax breaks and incentives, whether due to higher costs such as in New York or to make up for a smaller pool of skilled film professionals. Instead it should combine strong incentives with a combination of greater flexibility and availability in order to meet the demand that already exists.”
Can You Tell If A Composer Is Human Or Robot?
“Most of us like to think we could easily differentiate between a piece of music written by a human being and one generated by a computer. But a paper just presented at the International Conference on Computational Creativity 2012 suggests otherwise.”
Washington National Opera’s Artistic Director Resigns
The other shoe has dropped at the Washington National Opera: Christina Scheppelmann, the company’s director of artistic operations … [who] has been largely, if not exclusively, responsible for WNO’s artistic profile in the past few years, particularly as Placido Domingo’s tenure drew to a close … will step down at the end of November.”
Whoops! Did The Colorado Symphony Leak The Name Of Its New Music Director?
“The CSO sent out an e-mail Wednesday for a June 25 event in which the media was ‘cordially invited to meet the new artistic leadership of the orchestra.’ No names were attached. But the subject line of the e-mail read: ‘You are invited to the Andrew Litton press conference’.”
L.A. Company Finds More People Come To See Classical Plays In Pasadena (Who Knew?)
“A Noise Within has reported an upswing in audiences in its first season at its new location in Pasadena. The classical repertory theater company, which was located in Glendale for close to 20 years, began performances at its new venue in October.”