Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
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If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.
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Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
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In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.
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Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
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You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
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What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
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What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
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The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.
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Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
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You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.
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If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
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There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.
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What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination.