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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'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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We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.
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Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
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In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.
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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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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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Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
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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.