Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
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With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
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We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
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'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.
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'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.
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Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.
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Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.
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Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
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Technically the author is in breach of her contract. If the publisher decided that they wanted to demand the advance back, they could.
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Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
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A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
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Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.
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You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
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There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.