“After writing more than 20 books, with major publishers behind them, I have found it increasingly difficult to get new ideas accepted. It is also frustrating as a writer to have a non-fiction book that is up-to-the-minute when “completed”, only for it to come out maybe nine months later and seem slightly dated.”
Tag: 11.19.13
Raves For Mexico City’s Brilliant New Contemporary Art Museum
“Though there are other venues for contemporary art in the Mexican capital, the Jumex, with its high-profile location and deep-pocketed patron, is likely to do more than any other to bring a shock of the new to a city largely defined by its vast troves of pre-Columbian, colonial and 20th century masterworks.”
Why The Internet Isn’t A Distraction For Writers
“Especially in this technical age, the tools a writer has to work with change almost daily — today the Internet, tomorrow nanobot implants for the brain. But I believe the process stays essentially the same.”
Hollywood’s Studios See Major Upheavals At The Top
“Even as the movie awards season accelerates here, studio chiefs and major producers have been fretting less about Oscars than about job security. A rolling realignment has knocked out top executives, broken apart old alliances and shattered assumptions about corporate loyalties and the industry’s pecking order.”
Syd Field, 77, Author Of Screenwriters’ Bible
“Screenplay has sold millions of copies; been translated into more than a dozen languages; served as a reference for James Cameron, Judd Apatow, Tina Fey, Frank Darabont and scores of other successful screenwriters; and inspired plenty of sneers from those who insist that art is born of inspiration, not what Mr. Field, … [argued] is the crucial stuff of a good screenplay: plot points.”
Former Imelda Marcos Aide Convicted For Fencing Multi-Million-Dollar Paintings
“It took jurors only three hours on Monday morning to convict [Vilma] Bautista on conspiracy and tax fraud charges stemming from the sale or attempted sale of the paintings, which disappeared in the 1980s, when Ferdinand Marcos was ousted as president of the Philippines.”
China’s Longest, Raciest Piece Of Classical Pornography Appears In Unexpurgated English
Scholar David Tod Roy hs spent four decades translating The Plum in the Golden Vase, a 3,000-page 16th-century novel with a centuries-old reputation for both social realism and breathtaking raunch. “And Mr. Roy’s scholarly colleagues are no less awe-struck at his erudition, which seemingly leaves no literary allusion or cultural detail unannotated.”