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☆ Coming to a US city near you: An 825-pound Alex Morgan statue
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Amy Tennery | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] United States soccer player Alex Morgan poses in front of a statue of her at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, U.S. June 27, 2023. REUTERS/Amy Tennery/File PhotoLOS ANGELES, June 27 (Reuters) - Fans wishing to snap a picture with U.S. forward Alex Morgan will have a chance at the next best thing as a six-meter, 825-pound (375kg) statue of the soccer star hits the road ahead of the Women's World Cup. World Cup broadcaster Fox Sports conceived of the statue to promote its programming for the tournament, which kicks off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand. Known as 'Liberty Alex', the work is crafted from hard-coated and reinforced foam with a 3-D printed resin head and trophy, and features Morgan draped in an American flag, posing like the iconic Statue of Liberty. Morgan, who will appear in her fourth World Cup, modeled the flag in an April photoshoot.

Persons: Alex Morgan, Amy Tennery, Alex, Morgan, Robert Gottlieb, Gottlieb, Peter Rutherford Organizations: United, Dignity Health Sports Park, REUTERS, Fox Sports, Liberty . Fox Sports, Major League Baseball, Reuters, Thomson Locations: United States, Carson , California, U.S, Australia, New Zealand, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles

☆ Remembering Cormac McCarthy and Robert Gottlieb
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last week was a somber one in the world of letters. June 13 saw the death of the great novelist Cormac McCarthy, author of “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men” and “The Road,” among many other acclaimed books. On this week’s episode of the podcast, Gilbert Cruz talks with Dwight Garner about McCarthy’s work, and with Pamela Paul and Emily Eakin about Gottlieb’s life and legacy. “The two never worked together,” Cruz notes, “but it’s fascinating to imagine Gottlieb — who has argued with historian Robert Caro for half a century over punctuation marks — editing McCarthy, who rejected the use of quotation marks, semicolons and other such frippery. … I don’t know, maybe the two would have gotten along just fine.”We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review’s podcast in general.

Persons: Cormac McCarthy, Bob Gottlieb, Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller, John le Carré, Robert Caro, Lyndon B, Johnson, Gilbert Cruz, Dwight Garner, Pamela Paul, Emily Eakin, ” Cruz, Gottlieb —, McCarthy

☆ Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Alastair Macaulay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The world of letters has been mourning Robert Gottlieb, who died last week at 92, as a reader and editor of qualities that became legendary. The world of dance has been mourning him as well. He neither performed nor choreographed, but he played a major role, often behind the scenes, in fostering American dance. He ran influential works of dance criticism as editor of The New Yorker, and he later became a dance critic himself for The New York Observer. Perhaps less widely known was the key role he played behind the scenes at New York City Ballet, where he served on the board of directors.

Persons: Robert Gottlieb, Alfred A ., Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arlene Croce, Margot Fonteyn, Lincoln Kirstein, Natalia Makarova, Paul Taylor, “, Alfred Knopf, ”, ” Gottlieb —, Bob, —, George Balanchine, Balanchine Organizations: Alfred A . Knopf, Yorker, The New York Observer, New York City Ballet, The, City Center, Ballet Society, City Ballet, Sadler’s, Ballet, Metropolitan Opera House Locations: New

☆ Cormac McCarthy’s Remarkable Career Could Never Be Reproduced Today - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Dan Sinykin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The fact that the world is now celebrating the arc of Mr. McCarthy’s monumental career is a testament to the novelist’s undeniable talent. But it’s also due to his timely recognition that, without his protector, Mr. Erskine, and the vanished world of publishing that Mr. Erskine represented, he would need to change the way his books were published. In the 1960s, large corporations began acquiring publishing houses, consolidating the industry into fewer and fewer conglomerates. Literary agents became essential intermediaries, as publishing houses no longer riffled through submissions to find emerging talents. A poorly typed manuscript like Mr. McCarthy’s debut would struggle to make it into, let alone be rescued from, a slush pile.

Persons: it’s, Erskine, McCarthy’s, Robert Bernstein, Newhouse, Alberto Vitale, who’d, Mr, Vitale, ”, André Schiffrin, “, McCarthy, Lynn Nesbit, Robert Caro, Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Tom Wolfe, “ I’ve, ” Mr, you’re, Amanda “ Binky, Urban, Sonny Mehta, Robert Gottlieb, MacArthur, who’s Organizations: RCA, S.I, Mr, Olivetti, Fiat, Random, Knopf, The New York Times

☆ Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Unlike his revered and formal predecessor, who wore jackets and ties, saw people by appointment and was addressed as “Mr. Easing the apprehensions of many New Yorker aficionados, he made few and mostly minor changes over five years. New critics were hired, and Talk of the Town commentaries were opened to more writers and were no longer written anonymously. In 1992, Tina Brown, the British editor of Vanity Fair, replaced Mr. Gottlieb in an amicable transition and introduced splashy changes. “I can write perfectly well — anybody who’s educated can write perfectly well.

Persons: Mr, Shawn, ” Mr, Gottlieb, “, ”, Raymond Bonner, Judith Thurman, Diane Ackerman, Robert Stone, Richard Ford, Tina Brown, Eustace Tilley Organizations: Yorker, Knopf, The New York Observer Locations: Central, British

☆ ‘Turn Every Page—The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb’ Review: A Powerful Partnership
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The historian Robert Caro says he has built his career exploring a single grand theme: “how political power really worked.” Not how it worked in theory, or how it was supposed to work. His subjects were two men who achieved and wielded power like few others: Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson . Moses built Lincoln Center, the West Side Highway, the F.D.R. Drive, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and many other vital pieces of the New York landscape; Johnson built the Great Society and led the U.S. into war in Vietnam. The engrossing documentary “Turn Every Page—The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb ” gives equal attention to Mr. Caro and his editor, a figure of similar renown in the publishing field, Robert Gottlieb.

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