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Two poems from Terminalia
Culture Terminalia BY Daniel Menaker. The Portal Press. 74 pages. $16. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon Daniel Menaker (1941–2020) was a fiction editor at the New Yorker, the editor in chief of Random House, and the author of seven books, including the celebrated novel The Treatment (1998) and the 2013 memoir My Mistake.
So You Want To Be a Buddhist?
Daniel Menaker gives us a humorous look at the trendiness of Buddhism. Who doesn’t? It’s easy and also fun, especially if like me and most Americans who enjoy relaxing on the deck and talking about Buddhism you know very little about it.
Oliver Sacks’s Final, Posthumous Work
Nonfiction Image Oliver Sacks at home, March 2015. April 30, 2019 EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE First Loves and Last Tales By Oliver Sacks The word “Oneirism” is more than just an obscure exception to the “i” before “e” rhymelet. It also exemplifies the exceptionally advanced and sometimes stymying lexical breadth of Oliver Sacks’s writing — never more challenging than in this last, posthumous book, a collection of previously uncollected and/or unpublished essays.
In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs Shakes the Family Tree
Item: Henry Louis Gates Jr. says of his grandfather: “He was so white we called him Casper behind his back.” Item: In 1923, a magazine called The American Hebrew ran a piece about a man whose last name was Kabotchnik. He changed it to Cabot.
Two New Books Offer Advice for the Socially Awkward
2. Awkward people tend to “spotlight” specific details of personal interactions. This tendency can make it challenging to form friendships and join peer groups, but 3. “Awkward people also get to see whatever falls into their spotlight with brilliant detail.” And with proper training, education and exercises, awkward people can learn to be less awkward. 4. And, anyway, the internet has helped awkward people form friendships founded on special interests, but, on the other hand (so many hands!), 5.
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Here are the 40 artists who will be at the event! We're super thrilled to have art books, photo books, zines, comics, indie mags, coloring books, photo books from a diverse group of artists from Brooklyn to Baltimore. Can't wait to see you all at the fair!
Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Novel Wrestles With the Demands of Jewish Identity
To the extent that Jonathan Safran Foer’s often brilliant, always original but sometimes problematic new novel, “Here I Am,” has a central narrative, it involves four generations of a Washington, D.C., Jewish family, the Blochs — Jacob and Julia, their three sons, and Jacob’s father and grandfather.
‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins
Some lumbering robot, this Richard Dawkins. “Lumbering robots” was one of the ways in which this scarily brilliant evolutionary biologist described human beings vis-à-vis their genes in “The Selfish Gene,” his first and probably still his most influential book — more than a million copies sold. (His atheist manifesto, “The God Delusion,” has sold more than three million.) We’re essentially a means of physical and, more important, temporal transportation for our genes, he explained.
Longtime book editor Daniel Menaker on Amazon, Authors United, and the future of publishing.
One day about three years after I’d left the New Yorker to become a book editor, Alberto Vitale—former CEO of Random House, Inc., a genial, intelligent, and remarkably tan businessman, originally from Italy and Olivetti—stopped me in the hall outside my office. “Profesore, how are you?” Alberto said. Fine, I said. “Good,” he said. “I think you are doing well here,” he went on in his Chico Marxist accent, “but don’t forget that we always have to move the units.” Yes, I said.
Longtime book editor Daniel Menaker on Amazon, Authors United, and the future of publishing.
Books In praise of the publishers who move units and readers. Illustration by Jon Chadurjian. One day about three years after I’d left the New Yorker to become a book editor, Alberto Vitale—former CEO of Random House, Inc., a genial, intelligent, and remarkably tan businessman, originally from Italy and Olivetti—stopped me in the hall outside my office. “Profesore, how are you?” Alberto said. Fine, I said. “Good,” he said.
The Committee
Published in Issue 21: Throwback Publication date Winter 2015 In the early 1970s, the New Yorker, like many other magazines, went through two or three years of difficult financial times — a significant decrease in advertising pages and revenues.
‘The Glass Cage,’ by Nicholas Carr
In his previous book, “The Shallows” — essential reading about our Internet Age — Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of several books about technology, discussed the detrimental effects the Web has on our reading, thinking and capacity for reflection. In this new book, “The Glass Cage: Automation and Us,” similarly essential if slightly repetitive, Carr explains how certain aspects of automative technology can separate us from, well, Reality.
What Does the Book Business Look Like on the Inside?
Photo: SuperStock, Inc./(C) 1999 SuperStock, Inc. Harold Evans, the publisher of Random House, calls me at The New Yorker, where I work. “I’d like to have a word with you,” he says. “Can we have coffee sometime, perhaps?” It is 1995, and Evans and I have met at parties given by his wife, who happens to be Tina Brown, who happens to be the editor of The New Yorker. “How about today?” “Let me check with my assistant,” Evans says.
Opinion | Cancer: Fighting Words (Published 2011)
Opinion Aug. 27, 2011 Daniel Menaker is a former editor in chief of Random House and the author, most recently, of "A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation." EVERY day in obituaries, you will find combat metaphors about people who have died of cancer. “After a heroic battle against cancer,” “valiant fight against melanoma.” And so on.
The Management Myth
Reviewed by Daniel Menaker / Share Matthew Stewart, the proud but virtually unemployable holder of a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford, found himself rather suddenly — and virtually without qualification — hired as a management consultant by one of the field’s leading firms. He was an “experiment,” one of the wild-card, non-MBA types that big consulting groups make a practice of taking on.
Wild Thing - Neko Case, a Singer - NYTimes.com
“I wish I had a tremolo,” Neko Case said. She looked at the Samburger she was wolfing down — Samburgers and Zinburgers being the specialties of a restaurant called Zinburger, in downtown Tucson, where Case lives, for now. With their maple bacon, American cheese and Thousand Island dressing, Samburgers are a cardiothoracic surgeon’s dream. Case had been talking about singers whose music and voices she admired — Iris DeMent and Roy Orbison prominent among them.
An Appreciation of Alice Munro
Editors are paraliteraries—like paralegals and paramedicals. Their job is to help the writer to get a piece of writing to be the best it could possibly be with the writer writing at her best all the way through. To work with Alice Munro poses special challenges and offers special rewards. The structure of a Munro story works somewhat like a microscope, so that the closer in the reader focuses, the more the form dissolves and reassembles.
The Romance Of Remorse
Sept. 3, 2000 See the article in its original context from September 3, 2000, Section 6, Page 30Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Near the end of Emmylou Harris's show at the Birchmere Theater just outside Washington in May, a big black dog -- part poodle, part who knows -- bounds onstage, tail wagging. He finds his mistress standing between Buddy Miller, the nonmainstream country-music star, and the drummer-bassist Daryl Johnson.
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