Stanley Levine, 81, Philanthropist Who Transformed Miami’s Arts Landscape

An attorney by trade, Levine helped fund and govern the Concert Association of Florida, led the planning of the Lincoln Road pedestrian mall/arts district, and “raised millions for the [CAF], the Miami City Ballet, the Performing Arts Center Trust – which planned and built the Adrienne Arsht Center – and the New World Symphony.”

Paperback-Only Publishing Gets Respectable

Though the paperback-original format has (in the US) usually been the province of popular genre fiction, publishers are finding it “an increasingly attractive option – perhaps the only option – for young authors with no track record, midcareer authors with a challenging track record and international authors being published for the first time in the U.S.”