If you were to judge this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair by the length of time it took to get an espresso on the convention hall floor, you might have come away with the impression that it was a packed event. But by most accounts, this year’s incarnation of the industry’s celebrated ritual, where translation rights Read More
Gay Talese was creating a scene. He said so, the professional watcher, watching himself.
Mr. Talese, 73, was out on a sidewalk in the East 80’s on a Thursday night. His wife, the publisher Nan A. Talese, was at a cocktail party nearby; Mr. Talese had planned to meet up with her at a Read More
Although the American painter Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) has long been recognized as one of the founding talents of the New York School, the full scope of his enormous oeuvre has seldom been accorded the attention its merits. Not only was Pousette-Dart one of the youngest of the Abstract Expressionist painters, but with the painting called Read More
Every year, New York’s publishing world issues a collective complaint about the zoo-like nature of the fall Frankfurt Book Fair, the feeding frenzy of foreign-rights directors, agents and publishers who come to this dreary German city to do face-to-face what they do by fax and e-mail throughout the year: buy and sell the rights to Read More
The pressure cooker that is the annual Frankfurt Book Fair-9,600 companies from 106 countries in 184,000 square meters of crisp German convention center-reached its boiling point around 2 P.M. on Day 3 of the weeklong event. Alberto Vitale, chief executive of Random House Inc., was trying to add yet more meetings to those already scheduled Read More
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