April 2010
I’m on a first name basis with Foster, too.
March 2010
Greenberg.
“Those who watch the book deal emails from Publishers Lunch know that Chad Harbach, an editor at n+1, recently sold his first novel, The Art of Fielding, but a Bloomberg article today reveals it went for an eye-popping $650,000. The book centers around baseball at a fictional Wisconsin college, and Bloomberg pegs the deal as “one of the highest prices for a man’s first novel on a topic appealing to a male audience.” Possible buried lede: n+1 compatriots Benjamin Kunkel and Keith Gessen saw their first novels sell 48,000 and 7,000 copies respectively, according to Neilsen BookScan.”
Amy Poehler
The bummer aspect of this quote? It’s from 2006. Plus ça change…
(via ljm / toocutebyhalf / camplittlewolf / sarahb)
(via maura)To paraphrase Frankenfurter: “We didn’t make them for YOU!!”
Is there any writing about the film online where I can find out more about it before pulling the trigger on this decision?
“I considered seeing Greenberg but I think that would ruin the fun of reading everyone’s opinion about it.” —Andrew Krucoff, ethicist
I almost walked into a theater after the first 30 mins, out of discuss.
Greenberg is a blank canvas upon we all project our own stuff. I don’t know of any two people who saw the same movie. That’s one reason I like it.
IMAX 3D is really the only way to see it.
Independent has several definitions, but the one this book uses is the crucial question of whether a label distributes its records through one of the corporate music behemoths - in the period in question they were the so-called Big Six: Capitol, CBS, MCA, PolyGram, RCA, and WEA - which allows them entrée to vastly more stores than the smaller, independent distributors.
Music blogging, Maura.
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