best summer reads!
First published, 25th June 2013I want to write a sort of response to Michael Krüger’s remarks quoted in Publishing Perspectives this month. Soon to retire after forty five years at Carl Hanser Verlag, he laments:“I only know there are good and interesting books, and bad ones. You can read them on paper or on the screen,…
prom 37: con fusion and the rocky horror show
First published , 29th August 2013“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.” ― David HumeWhen the impresario, Robert Newman invited Sir Henry Wood to conduct the first promenade concerts in London in 1895,…
plenty of nothing — on the price of culture and the value of art
First published, 20th September 2013Damien Hirst once said: “I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say ‘f off’. But after a while you can get away with…
Recent Posts
