Declares Isaac Fitzgerald, “Why waste breath talking smack about something? You see it in so many old media-type places, the scathing takedown rip. … [The online books community] understand that about books, that it is something that people have worked incredibly hard on, and they respect that. The overwhelming online books community is a positive place.”
Tag: 11.07.13
Houston Classical Music Station Axes On-Air Hosts
“Employees were told that lack of funds accrued from the recent nine-day fundraising campaign, which a source described as a colossal failure, was to blame.”
The Novel Is Not Dead, People
Sam Sacks: “The death of the novel [is] a doomsday pronouncement so commonly invoked that it often seems more like a reflex than a reasoned argument. … This tendency to project one’s own cynicism onto the books that failed to magically prevent it has become a little too frequent these days, and it needs challenging.”
But Is Literary Style Dying In Today’s Border-Crossing World?
Tim Parks: “Style, then, involves a meeting between arrangements inside the prose and expectations outside it. You can’t have a strong style without a community of readers able to recognize and appreciate its departures from the common usages they know. … Style is predicated on a strict relation to a specific readership and the more that readership is diluted or extended, particularly if it includes foreign-language readers, the more difficult it is for a text of any stylistic density to be successful.”
Ballet San Jose Gets A New Artistic Director
José Manuel Carreño is “the first official artistic director since Dennis Nahat was fired from BSJ and ABT’s organization was brought in, largely with funds donated by electronics store tycoon John Fry, under the temporary artistic advisorship of Wes Chapman, a former ABT principal dancer.”
The Newest Trend In Opera
Speculation about what the characters would do after the opera’s narrative ends, aka fan fiction.
Hollywood Studios Drop $200M Suit Against File-Sharing Site
“A NYC-based federal judge today granted final approval to Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Viacom, Disney, Comedy Partners and Warner Bros’ request to dismiss their almost two year case against LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton.”
Bolshoi Acid Attack Trial, Day Two: Filin Will Need Lifelong Eye Surgery
The father-in-law of Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin said on the stand: “I asked the doctors how long the operations would need to go on for, whether it would be another year, or two years. But they said to me that they will probably have to go on for the rest of his life.”
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus Director Arrested In Sex Sting
Lee Erickson allegedly followed an undercover police officer into a men’s room in a Milwaukee park and engaged in “lewd behavior”.
Qatari Poet To Serve 15-Year Sentence For Pro-Arab Spring Verse
“Qatar’s Supreme Court last month upheld a 15-year prison sentence handed to poet Mohammed Al-Ajami for reciting a poem in support of the Arab uprisings on YouTube.” He has been held in solitary confinement for two years.