December 2010
5 posts
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Dec 25th
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“Editor is a formidable stealth position: an editor can launch 20 books a year...”
– Harriet Rubin, publishing colleague of Jackie Onassis, on the female editors at Doubleday, in Greg Lawrence’s “Jackie O, Working Girl,” Vanity Fair
Dec 17th
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“In many ways, I am my father’s son. Once, in my 60s, I told my father, in his...”
– Pat Jordan, “What I Learned From My Father, the Grifter,” Men’s Journal.
Dec 17th
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“And [Paul Muad’Dib] thought about the Guild—the force that had specialized...”
–  —Frank Herbert, Dune
Dec 16th
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“I recognize that there are certain types of games for which the photorealistic...”
– Shigeru Miyamoto, quoted in The New Yorker.
Dec 14th