“Timing can be everything in publishing, and every now and then, a book comes along that dovetails perfectly to capture some of the excitement stirred up by a similar title. ‘We bought the book and loved it,’ Ms. Court said. ‘Then the “Gone Girl” thing happened. It was like throwing a can of petrol on the bonfire.'”
Tag: 08.04.13
Paul Szilard, 100, Dance Impresario To Alvin Ailey And Many Others
“Mr. Szilard did not fit the traditional mold of a top-hatted impresario. But he called himself one in the subtitle of his memoir — ‘My Life as an Impresario.'”
We’ve Lost Our Digital Innocence. What’s Next?
“It’s entirely unimaginable that something as revolutionary as the internet would not become entangled in struggles for power and control. Instinctively, we knew that our innocence stood on weak foundations.”
Are Humans Really The Only Animals That Can Dance?
That is, move to a beat? And if we’re not, is it only other “vocal learners” who can dance?
Stephen King’s Family Business
“Entertaining their parents, for the King children, was part job, part enrichment. At bedtime, they were the ones expected to tell their parents stories, instead of the other way around.”