Ugh. “The people who run publishing companies consistently value quantity over quality. This is stressful for the workers on the ground, the ones who likely chose to work in book publishing in the first place because they actually, you know, like books.” So … outside consultants seem attractive. - LitHub
"From 1882 to 1892 she was Rodin’s assistant, lover, muse, and, most importantly, co-creator. However, aside from assertions in pop culture, such as Bruno Nuytten’s impressive 1988 film Camille Claudel, their collaboration has yet to be widely acknowledged by the art world.” - Hyperallergic
The director said, "If screenwriters take the time to watch the movie and read about the process and why we did this film, I can’t imagine they’ll condemn us or me because I’m one of them … I want to do this as a contribution to the cause.” - The Guardian (UK)
Simon won four Tonys as a producer, and he balanced producing film and stage works for years as well. He said, "I’ve found that many businesspeople can handle the question of financial viability but can’t judge a good story, so as an artist I also have that area of expertise.” - The New York Times
For instance, the lead character encounters a blueberry pie on a picnic table. The game reads, “This is the longest word in Anashinaabemowin: Miini-baalashkiminasljigani-blitoosigani-badakiingwesijigani-blitooyiingwesijigani-bakwezhigan: Blueberry pie." - CBC
“By opening itself more forthrightly to a wider audience, the library is doing something that Henry Clay Folger could probably never have imagined would be necessary: assert the importance of Shakespeare to public life, from scholars to laymen, passersby and politicians.” - Washington Post
“Two years after being evicted by Paris police, a collective of students and film-industry professionals returned to the arthouse cinema they had occupied from 2019 to 2022 on Thursday to reinstall the wheels of a 35mm projector.” - The Guardian (UK)
Minerva, whose feet students had kissed for luck for 150 years, was decapitated by a backhoe. For many, “the accident felt like a final blow. ‘It’s kind of unfolding out before you, just how awful this is, on top of everything else,’ said.” - The New York Times
“Octavia E. Butler envisioned with eerie precision: a world of increasing drug addiction and illiteracy, global shifts towards authoritarian populism, vast gaps between the rich and everyone else, and destruction brought on by global warming. Her prophecies, however, ... provided a blueprint for how to fight back.” - Fast Company
“As a young artist, you’re wondering: Are you a craft person? Are you a conceptual artist? Are you Mexicano? Are you Americano? A Chicano? … At some point, we understood that the least we worried about it, the better.” - The New York Times
A fleet of ten is now seven, of which a majority “carry fewer books and have to be loaded and unloaded. librarian, whose yellow van did not return from the garage in April, said: 'I am worried that the mobile library service will fizzle out and die.’” - The Scotsman
Exhortations toward work as the path to truth, meaning, virtue, and salvation suggest the contemporary valuation of work is—although not universal—more than the legacy of a single cultural tradition. - The Walrus
In many ways, “The Real World” was a great leap forward from the proto-reality ventures of the past. These attempts had ranged from culture-rattling “audience-participation” formats such as “Candid Camera,” which began in the late forties, to the smutty Chuck Barris game shows of the sixties and seventies. - The New Yorker
