Richard Grossman
Richard Grossman
Richard Lee Grossmanwas the former co-director of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. He was co-author of Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation. He lectured widely on issues of corporate power, law and democracy. He was also one of the teachers for the Daniel Pennock Democracy School, which tries to help people understand how and why corporations have more rights than human beings...
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth10 August 1943
interested shows
This shows Macquarie is still interested in bidding.
building good people physical
It's good for a building that people upgrade, but there are physical things you have to look out for.
best company conflict customers exchange interest
An exchange is a monopoly; it shouldn't be a company because there's a conflict of interest between what's best for customers and what's best for shareholders, ... As an investor, I really can't complain.
buy console turn
I'm going to buy another racehorse if things with LSE turn out well, ... I'll have to console myself somehow.
spiritual strong prayer
I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.
writing house true-life
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.
writing unique levels
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.
art years world
I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary world is provincial when it comes to matters of art. And it always has been.
beautiful book elements
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.
thinking two three
I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the time factor, and then there's the factor which I call the cerebral factor of the reader, the way the reader adjusts to all the other dimensions, which is the fifth dimension.
reading book four
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
book jigsaw-puzzles creating
My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are.
moving writing trying
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
thinking brutality common
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.