“Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about…” — Robert Gottlieb

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.