The granddaughter of Lucy Maud Montgomery writes, “What has never been revealed is that [she] took her own life at the age of 67 through a drug overdose. I wasn’t told the details of what happened, and I never saw the note she left, but I do know that it asked for forgiveness.”
Tag: 09.19.08
Creative Writing In Your Book Storage
“The latest book organisation method making them all Dewey-eyed on the internet is to sort them so the titles form a (fairly) coherent sentence, phrase or message.”
Come Read Me A Book (But Please Do It Right!)
Audio books are big business. “Nearly $1 billion worth were sold last year, meaning 15 percent of all books sold these days are the kind that read themselves.” But casting the reader is fraught with peril…
Performers With Disabilities Fight The Stereotypes
“Patronising attitudes and cliches abound: disabled people are brave, struggling to overcome adversity, morally unblemished, devoid of sexuality. Add disability to the list and the fog of preconception becomes that little bit thicker. Are you seen first and foremost as a professional performer or that plucky man with cerebral palsy, that amazing dancer with Down Syndrome or the girl in the wheelchair who sings?”
Budapest Festival Orchestra – An Orchestra Organized Like No Other
“The whole philosophy is different from any other orchestra I know. There is no job security, no union, and no limits to how much we can rehearse and work.” It sounds, frankly, bonkers. What performer would sign up for a musical life of deregulated working conditions, in which the conductor – usually Fischer himself – can insist on whatever hours he chooses? Well, about a hundred of Hungary’s finest musicians, it turns out.”