An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different.
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
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.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
