“Amazon will publish 122 books this fall in an array of genres, in both physical and e-book form. It is a striking acceleration of the retailer’s fledging publishing program that will place Amazon squarely in competition with the New York houses that are also its most prominent suppliers.”
Tag: 10.17.11
Defying Cultural Stereotypes, And Divadom, To Arrive At Musical Heights
Concert pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who mixes her Japanese heritage, German musical training and life in the U.K. as she continues to find musical success: “What truly matters is that your love of music is stronger than your love of yourself. Success will come if you have something [musical] to say.”
Et Tu, Hollywood? ‘Anonymous’ Harms The Real Shakespeare
“The most troubling thing about ‘Anonymous’ is not that it turns Shakespeare into an illiterate money-grubber. It’s not even that England’s virgin Queen Elizabeth is turned into a wantonly promiscuous woman who is revealed to be both the lover and mother of de Vere. Rather, it’s that in making the case for de Vere, the film turns great plays into propaganda.”
America’s Alice In Wonderland? The Phantom Tollbooth At 50
“[The] fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn’t been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again. A book that has crossed that three-generation barrier has a good chance at permanence.”