Saturday, November 09, 2002

Art Guess who's in for a little criticism?

When art critic Emily Genauer died last August at 91, obituaries dutifully noted that she had received the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1974. What they didn't say is that she's the only newspaper art critic ever to win it.

I refuse to accept any responsibility for anything anybody might claim to have learned from my criticism.
· Art Criticism [Los Angeles Times 11/08/02]

A life, thanks to Pi

The Life of Pi accelerates up the bestseller list.

· THE REAL IMPACT OF A BOOKER WIN [Scotsman]


Going Long, Going Deep

STUFFY, STAID, AND SUCCESSFUL: Current conventional publishing wisdom says that in order to sell copies of your magazine, you need near-naked women on the cover, piles of ads from hip companies, and for the love of God, no big, long, thought-provoking articles! Nobody likes those. Well, nobody except the growing subscriber base of The Atlantic, which may just be America's most unlikely serious magazine success story.
· The Atlantic Hardly The Titanic [Columbia Journalism Review 11/02]