Jeremy Cooper, the winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Prize, remembers when he had a little cushion of money from selling art and a lot of chutzpah: "I ditched my literary agent Curtis Brown, as they strongly advised me against writing fiction and since then I’ve handled all my work myself.” - The Guardian (UK)
"Previously a curator at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, where she led the European paintings department, Brilliant claims that Voena and di Robilant subjected her to sexual harassment and repeated verbal abuse in the form of racist, sexist, antisemitic, and homophobic comments." - Hyperallergic
"The truest artist-muse relationship may be that in which the former works with the latter because no other individual talent will bring the art to the exalted level that lives in the artist’s imagination." - Washington Post
“The excavation of the political from the personal is always worth studying, which is part of the reason People has always been such a rich text. But today’s People Magazine is thinner, less glossy, and generally less substantive.” True for many magazines, but for People? It's Barry Diller. - Culture Study
“'It’s an amazing experience,’ Annia Hidalgo, one of the Queer the Ballet dancers, . ‘We all speak the same language. It’s movement, it’s art, it’s ballet, it’s queerness.’” - WPIX New York (MSN)
“Being calculated isn’t easy. Networks and executive producers have to consider the politics of choosing one writer’s or director’s episode over another, and individual writers and directors can always just submit themselves for the ballot.” - Vulture
Players of Elden Ring died so often when the game first came out that live streams of other players dying over and over became a whole sui generis thing. - The New York Times
Crumb’s “scores — created by hand and themselves works of art — are rife with exacting instructions to performers: how to thread paper between the strings of a harp, or how string players should use the thimbles on their fingers.” - The New York Times
Erica Tremblay: "You don’t know if this is just a moment that Hollywood is having that will just go right back. ... What is the new Hollywood? What are the impacts of AI that are coming? All of this is really anxiety-inducing.” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
Zelda Fichandler, a month before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated: "When I look around, however, beyond our too-perfected technique and … the ‘canons of our craft,’ a deep, visceral intuition tells me that the power of our art is being blunted, deadened, and caged.” - American Theatre
Cue the sounds of a long search for success: "After a decade of self publishing, McFadden signed a series of deals with Sourcebooks’ mystery and thriller imprint, Poisoned Pen Press,” which is releasing her novels at an absolutely punishing rate. - The New York Times
