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Publishers And Authors: Inviting Them To The Same Party
iStockphoto / Svetl Every Job In Publishing Depends On Authors How is book publishing divided today? Let’s not count the ways. Outsiders looking into this beleaguered industry, however, might be...
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SELF-e And The World’s Authors: Is English Our Lingua Franca?
iStock / Shujaa 777 ‘Keep Calm And Study English’ “Since the smashing success of the first Harry Potter novel—which was a No. 1 bestseller in Germany in its English version at one point—we have...
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It’s Fat Season For Diet Books
iStockphoto / nito100 Larding On The Advice According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly 38 percent of American adults are technically obese (with a body mass index over 30), up...
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Adult Coloring Books: Only Half-Good For Publishing
Twenty20 / mlesniowski Color Us Skeptical One of the things the book publishing industry produces best is confusion. Its gray areas (not unlike its Grey areas) are fogs of speculation, partial truths,...
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Author-Editor Relationships: An Endangered Species?
iStockphoto / badmanproduction Doubling Down On Writing For 2016 One of the things that makes the 2015-2016 transition interesting in the creative corps is a subdued, reflective, sometimes exhausted,...
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At ALA’s Midwinter Meeting: BiblioBoard Pivots As ‘Libraries Transform’
iStockphoto / LembiBuchanan From Info Vaults To Creative Hubs The American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Boston, has just closed with some impressive numbers to report. Gary Price at...
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Music for Writers: Nadia Sirota At An ‘Incredible Point’
“It’s kind of incredible to be at a point in your life where people let you do what you want to do.” Say new music to anyone following contemporary classical composition and performance. They’ll know...
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Dan Trueman: The Digital Piano, Well-Prepared
Artwork for the album ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ by David Stith ‘A Whole Palette of Sounds’ Dan Trueman is a composer, a violinist, and an electronic musician whose latest recording, Nostalgic Synchronic...
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Randy Gibson: ‘This Feeling Of Eternity”
Randy Gibson. Image by Katy Pritchett ‘To A Higher Plane’ Randy Gibson is a sound-world architect. He’s best known in connection with the Avant Music Festival each year in New York. (This year’s opens...
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Scott Wheeler: ‘Deeply Emotionally Invested’
Scott Wheeler. Image: Susan Wilson ‘You Can Get All Balled Up’ Scott Wheeler’s music captures the American contemporary classical idiom with commanding grace. He can speak to us in searing orchestral...
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Michel van der Aa: ‘No Lines To Cross Over Anymore’
Michel van der Aa. Image: Marco Borggreve ‘We Must Use Everything We See And Hear’ Dutch composer-filmmaker Michel van der Aa’s The Book of Sand is a digital, interactive song cycle created to live...
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Gity Razaz: ‘The Emotional Map’ Of A Composer’s Voice
Gity Razaz. Image provided by the composer ‘Music As Seeing/Feeling’ Composer Gity Razaz started playing piano at age 7, started writing music when she was 9—”I didn’t even know what composition was at...
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Matthew Guard’s Skylark Ascending: Music To Die To
‘End Of Life Visions And Meditations’ As our colleague Doyle Armbrust is writing over at New York Public Radio’s and WQXR Q2 Music, it’s just too bad that when your time comes to leave this Earth, you...
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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol: ‘Reconstructing My Identity’ In Music
Composer Mehmet Ali Sanlikol is a singer and instrumentalist who has performed in his own “coffeehouse opera,” “Othello In The Seraglio.” Image: Provided by the composer ‘Those Who Don’t Know Us’ Sufi,...
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Kronos’ David Harrington: ‘There Is No Such Thing As Easy Music’
From left, the Kronos Quartet is Sunny Yang (cello), Hank Dutt (viola), David Harrington (violin and founding artistic director), and John Sherba (violin). Image: Jay Blakesberg Kronos: Commissioning...
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Matthew Welch, Bagpiper and Composer: ‘My Music Sounds Like An Optimistic...
Matthew Welch. Image: Michael Weintrob The Sound ‘Continues To Move In Space’ An avant-garde bagpiper may not be the guy you expect to meet, even here at our eclectic Music for Writers. But last week,...
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Cellist Michael Nicolas In Transition: ‘All Art Is Technology’
Michael Nicolas. Image: Erin Baiano ‘Something From Deep Down Inside’ “This is a new thing for me. I’ve been a freelancer in New York since graduating” from Juilliard. “I had an orchestral job right...
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Composer Lewis Pesacov: A 5,125-Year Love Story’s Moment In Eternity
Composer Lewis Pesacov, right, with tenor Ashley Faatoalia as the Mayan astrologer in ‘The Edge of Forever.’ Image: DotDotDot Press ‘The Letting Go Of Expectations’ The Edge of Forever is meant never...
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Composer Gregory Spears: ‘Fellow Travelers’ And ‘The Nature Of Homophobia’
Gregory Spears. Image: Andrew Jordan ‘Part Of Our Country’s History’ Even without the unforgivable attack on the Pulse in Orlando last week, composer Gregory Spears’ world premiere of Fellow Travelers...
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Maya Beiser: ‘Singing With The Cello’
Maya Beiser. Image: Ioulex ‘To Take Back Our Own Listening’ On the 10th album to feature her singularly self-aware work, the Israeli-born American cellist Maya Beiser has embarked on a more personal...
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