tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52610992011-04-21T16:54:37.947-04:00True confessions of a Gotham Book GirlThe days and nights, loves and losses, misadventures and episodes of a New York publishing princess.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1099234593075668092004-10-31T09:50:00.000-05:002004-10-31T09:56:33.076-05:00Goooooooooood Mornin' New York!
It couldn't be a more gorgeous day for the end of October. I'm not a big Halloweeny sort, but what a nice night for the little ghouls and goblins (and children, too) to be out!
I think there will have to be a trip uptown to Central Park today to see what may be the last of the fall foliage. I was in Boston a couple of weeks ago and the train up along the coast moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1099185107606953482004-10-30T20:53:00.000-04:002004-10-30T21:11:47.606-04:00I know, I know. I'm a terrible hostess! My mother (aka The Hun) would be absolutely appalled at how I've treated you all, my guests!
It was suggested to me by a few readers (I can't imagine there are more than a few of you...but anyway) that I ought to post more often.
I think my last post was just after Labour Day, back when it was still 80 degrees. I'll tell you that I'm THRILLED, this moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1094523651260317032004-09-06T22:14:00.000-04:002004-09-06T22:20:51.260-04:00Just when you thought I'd fallen from the face of the earth...
It's been terribly busy here in Gotham, what with Republicans visiting and venerating their idiot king. Still, things went pretty smoothly and from what I heard, Union Square was hoppin' most nights. I had to laugh because the opening night of the convention the ESB was yellow, and I was certain it was meant to say to the moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1075434704647537062004-01-29T22:35:00.000-05:002004-01-29T22:53:19.606-05:00I really feel that with the lovely snow, and the quiet that envelopes the city during the winter, that I shouldn't launch into a full scale rant...but that's all just unfortunate--I NEED TO RANT.
Maybe some of you out there are familiar with what I've decided to call the Curse of Capability. It's a ruthless, merciless and relentless spell that can completely undo you.
Allow me to expound...moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1074659419598788052004-01-20T23:21:00.000-05:002004-01-20T23:33:37.530-05:00*Sigh* every New Yorker should have a night out at Bemelman's. I went to a wonderful art opening on the UES (thanks SRO!!) where I saw lovely old master drawings (at the Adam Williams gallery @50 E 78th st) and then went with a publishing colleague for my first ( I KNOW...FIRST!!) trip to Bemelman's at the Carlyle for drinks. We all know that for as much as I'm happiest in a pair of Wellies in moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1074383976417199992004-01-17T18:59:00.000-05:002004-01-17T19:00:59.186-05:00I guess the work week finally came to an end after all. *phew* The week did get a little better, although there are still some mammoth size problems, they can be overcome and I HOPE...really HOPE that they will convince everyone involved that we need to start some books sooner so we don't end up crashing every title. I admit to liking the energy that can be present when you are under pressure,moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1074045145502044582004-01-13T20:52:00.000-05:002004-01-13T20:53:45.310-05:00It's only Tuesday and yet...is this week ever going to end??? Back to London, please...
Seriously, it's tough coming back after the hols...as you all realise. And in our office it's never an "easing into New Year"...it's more "rushing headlong" into New Year. Art programs that suddenly became NIGHTMARISH...authors who apparently had their quarterly anxiety attacks over the holidays and wantedmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1073882061273852232004-01-11T23:34:00.000-05:002004-01-11T23:35:38.686-05:00Happy New Year to one and all! I guess I got busy at the end of the year....hmmm. I am always so disappointed that the last three months of the year go by sooooo fast as they are my favourite time of year. Some year I hope to just lay back and watch fall happen, watch the leaves change and enjoy the last few days of the year. **Now that sounds like a great New Year's resolution!**
I hope moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1066184011869402822003-10-14T22:03:00.000-04:002003-10-14T22:13:31.820-04:00
It's a blustery day here in Gotham! It's been so cool watching the clouds roll in tonight...(okay I'm easily amused, that really can't surprise you at this point!)
I don't know about the rest of you lot, but I've been suffering baseball related sleep deprivation! Even though my beloved Twinkies lost their way to a holiday, I have to watch to cheer for the Red Sox (the adopted team from moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1065497366857636302003-10-06T23:29:00.000-04:002003-10-06T23:29:26.566-04:00As I type this I am awaiting (with the rest of Bahston) the result of the big game tonight--and to see if there will be any joy in Mudville. There are two (only two!!!) Yankee fans in our office, the rest are either Red Sox or Braves fans, and of course there is moi...who is first a Twins fan, second a Boston Red Sox fan and third a Chicago Cubs fan(after all, they are a National League team andmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1065455701139429992003-10-06T11:44:00.000-04:002003-10-06T11:55:00.513-04:00My poor Minnesota Twins!!! I'm so glad that (at least for the most part) they played well and didn't get trounced. I'm also proud of the way they came into Yankee Stadium and took game 1. Well done to my Twinkies, and thanks for giving us all some great baseball to watch.
I'm so pleased to see the Cubs winning, and that the Red Sox are still alive too. I don't really need an excuse to cheermoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1064929588260614462003-09-30T09:46:00.000-04:002003-09-30T10:00:45.393-04:00As we head toward the fall classic, that (IMHO) most American of sporting events...I have to say that I feel a real electricity in this post-season. There are so many possibilities...Cubs v Red Sox, Giants v Yankees, Twins v Giants...this year anything can happen. Now I am completely aware that my beloved Twins are underdogs even to the underdogs, but hope springs eternal you know. John moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1064881228745212162003-09-29T20:20:00.000-04:002003-09-29T20:20:28.610-04:00
A few last leaves of green for the summer...
It occurred to me this weekend that I haven't done much reading outside of our list in the last few months. A few of us were having the summer-wrap-up convo about what we read, etc. I realised as I was weighing in on what I liked and didn't of the usual crop of summer reading...I really had only read work stuff!! I had read a few books on horse moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1064860431462061972003-09-29T14:19:00.001-04:002003-09-29T14:46:44.746-04:00
Happy Monday to one and all!! It feels like autumn today, and that's brilliant as far as this girl is concerned. *sigh* I don't feel any of the urgency I felt all summer, and for that I am utmost grateful.
The photo above I took last weekend on the Upper West Side, and it's become one of my favourites. I don't know if other Gothamites do this, but I have sort of a strange practice that moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1064720498282553032003-09-27T23:41:00.000-04:002003-09-28T21:52:17.350-04:00Where did September go?? I can't believe it's almost October, and I haven't even begun to shop for fall clothes!! (Except for the classic cable sweater from JCrew that apparently the known world also wants, and thus is backordered until kingdom come!!!!)
I know you will all be very happy to know that the office move is COMPLETE. We have started to really settle into our new space, and for the moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1062646650611675022003-09-03T23:37:00.000-04:002003-09-03T23:37:30.633-04:00Okay...I know that midtown is out there...but I just can't see it!!! It's kind of freaky to look out my windows and see NONE of the usual lights, no tall buildings and no glow from the Times Square vicinity. Hmmmm. It looks like the weekend is going to be lovely though, so I guess it will all sort out just fine.
It's become a madhouse in our office. Trying to get books done while finding moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1062536521394325232003-09-02T17:02:00.000-04:002003-09-02T17:03:02.490-04:00Lost...one Empire State Building and most of midtown Manhattan!
Autumn has crept in on little cat feet...soft and foggy, cool and rainy. I can't think of a more appropriate way to usher in my favourite season. I used to love summer, but that was when I was young and carefree--and had the entire summer off from school or college. These days I'm energised by the cool nights and just the bit of moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1062467041623082112003-09-01T21:44:00.000-04:002003-09-01T21:44:01.590-04:00"And the days grow short, when you reach September..." I think I am probably one of the few in Manhattan to be glad that summer is over. Let's recap, shall we? I moved (a good thing, but trying), broke up with the one man who has ever even tried to make me happy, survived a black out with all the rest of you good people, and have had a ridiculous last two months at work. So will I miss the moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1062121378451482902003-08-28T21:42:00.000-04:002003-08-28T21:53:24.243-04:00Is it true??? Is summer really over??? OY...or, for my British mates...OI?!?!?! I can't believe how fast this summer has gone, since, for most of the summer, it seemed as though we wouldn't have one. It's a lovely night out there tonight, and I'm being a very good girl and have shut off my A/C and am enjoying the cool of early autumn. I for one am looking forward to a nice leisurely weekend moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1061734692358933792003-08-24T10:18:00.000-04:002003-08-24T10:19:47.900-04:00It's a breezy, beautiful Sunday in the city. I took a nice early morning walk while the city was quiet and got an iced coffee, though it was almost cool enough for HOT coffee. Ohhhhhh these mornings like this are gems.
It's been a busy week at work, and one filled with more than the usual angst and existential crises...yes, multiple crises!!!
Unlike most publishing houses, we don't have moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1061150349100949332003-08-17T15:59:00.000-04:002003-08-17T16:02:42.173-04:00New York on Sunday...big city takin' a nap as Bobby Darin would sing!! It feels pretty lazy here as summer winds down and we all recover from The Blackout.
Having had more than sufficient time to ponder events of the last few days, I came to a few conclusions, and made some interesting ovservations.
OBSERVATIONS
These are mostly about my colleagues...and I'm trying not to judge here, but moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1061053329971607852003-08-16T13:02:00.000-04:002003-08-16T13:02:09.826-04:00Showered, cool and cashed makes for a happy girl! Ohhhhhh my but did that shower feel good! Power finally arrived back on 15th street at 9:03 pm...just in time for the above mentioned shower and then settling in to watch Dead Like Me, which featured more than the usual Mandy Patinkin - talk about a happy girl!
Kudos! Well Done! and more praise and thanks to the folks who worked so hard to moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1060990990624744512003-08-15T19:43:00.000-04:002003-08-15T19:43:07.070-04:00One final post before my trusty little laptop loses battery power! Still dark here in this book girl's corner of Gotham, although all my helpful friends outside the city inform me that 85 % of the rest of NY has power. While I am pleased, it really doesn't make the situation any easier.
MY KINGDOM FOR A SHOWER!!!!! It's a good thing I am living here alone, it's not a pretty sight. ICK.
Wellmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1060912595996986372003-08-14T21:56:00.000-04:002003-08-14T22:01:04.080-04:00The night that the lights went out in Gotham!! I can't say I've ever imagined I'd see New York looking like this!! Phone lines seem to be working so long as they are attached to regular (non cordless) phones, and I had a full battery on the laptop, so at least I feel like I am a little connected. Other than the sounds of sirens, and helicopters hovering (it looks like they are over the Hudsonmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1060739682876464622003-08-12T21:54:00.000-04:002003-08-12T21:54:42.750-04:00BOYS...*sigh*. Ya can't live with 'em, ya can't shoot 'em. Having been (for the first time since living in NYC ) a singleton for the past month or so, I have to say...it's rough out there!!
So today, three...count them THREE "men from my past" (not all old boyfriends, but somehow connected to me in some quirky cosmic way) decided to reappear on my virtual doorstep. The ex (the one I still moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1060714019581190522003-08-12T14:46:00.000-04:002003-08-12T14:46:59.466-04:00Random Red Hot Chili Peppers lyric (that I cannot get out of my mind...from Zephyr Song)
In the water where I center my emotion, all the world can pass me by...
*sigh*moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1060656020853805722003-08-11T22:40:00.000-04:002003-08-11T22:43:49.253-04:00I'm going to apologise in advance for the sheer randomness of my thoughts today. *whew*
First off...I'm so sad about Herb Brooks death. For those of you out there who are not (a) Minnesotan or (b) a hockey fan or (c) were born after 1980, Herb Brooks was amongst other things the coach of the "Miracle on Ice" US Olympic hockey team that won the gold medal in 1980 at Lake Placid. (A rag-tag moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-106056762187407512003-08-10T22:07:00.000-04:002003-08-10T22:08:16.370-04:00It's very sad to read of the passing of Mr. Gregory Hines, at the still young age of 57. I had never really seen or heard much about him until the movie White Nights with Baryshnikov. I remember thinking it was magical to watch them dance. So different from Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire whom I'd usually seen dancing. Mr. Hines, however, had the grace of Astaire...that fluidity of mind and moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1060526714133316042003-08-10T10:45:00.000-04:002003-08-10T10:48:11.593-04:00Happy August everyone! In the list of things a person ought to know is coming, at least August is living up to expectations. Humid, stormy, down right sticky....yup...that's the August we all know and love. And now that we've been reminded just how August-like August is...can we move right on into a nice crisp fall? (OK...I admit a slight amount of bitterness because I had my sailing break moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1059791393945183232003-08-01T22:29:00.000-04:002003-08-01T22:31:24.660-04:00
Foggy!! Steamy!!! Gotham in August. *sigh*moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1059613486385396282003-07-30T21:04:00.000-04:002003-07-30T21:04:46.426-04:00
It's another lovely summer evening here in NY. Just a little shot of my balcony view...the ESB was lovely the last couple of nights all lit up red and white for Peruvian Independence. It's such a great icon for NY, and I'm enjoying seeing all the moods and shades of this lovely structure.
More later...it's been a very busy week in my little corner of the publishing world. My colleagues and Imoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1059508091375370702003-07-29T15:48:00.000-04:002003-07-29T15:48:11.270-04:00It is a positively grand summer day here in New York! A few clouds and a gentle breeze make this one of the nicest days we have had this summer. I'm fortunate that our office is located two blocks from the Hudson River so lunch time is often spent at the little river park nearby. If you haven't had a chance to check out all the great little spaces (piers, jetties, benches) along the Hudson moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1059435870541546892003-07-28T19:44:00.000-04:002003-07-28T19:53:14.526-04:00
For those days when you feel like you've got the world on your shoulders!
Lots has happened here in Gotham...and it's been an amazing month. I am now moved to a fab pad near Union Square with the most amazing view of the Empire State Building and a very sweet little balcony from which to enjoy that view. Gin and tonic never tasted better than it has from the Adirondack chair on my little moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1059432893287892332003-07-28T18:54:00.000-04:002003-07-28T18:54:53.176-04:00YIPPEE!!!! The lovely folks at blogsplot have fixed whatever little creatures may have been lurking and I am now free to ramble and spout once again! *SIGH*
Thank you (exponents inserted here...) to the blogger gang!
Anyhow...I'm awfully happy to be back so stay tuned....
Cheers all...moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-1055900544829861662003-06-17T21:42:00.000-04:002003-07-24T15:36:27.013-04:00Girls, don't you just hate it when you start to cry on the subway? Today was one of those "overwhelmed, overworked, underslept" days. Between boy troubles, work issues, moving (house and office)
and who knows what else, it was a less than stellar day.
I could feel it starting as things began to go wrong this morning. Edits hadn't arrived, disks were not working, art that we had spec'd was moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-956114572003-06-12T21:17:00.000-04:002003-06-12T21:25:16.000-04:00Good night, David...
I was very much saddened to hear of the passing of David Brinkley...followed so terribly quickly by news of Gregory Peck's passing. A colleague told me of Brinkley's death and I said immediately that these things happen in threes...and sadly...we have lost two wonderfully classy men.
My memories of David Brinkley are of watching "This Week" with my parents after we had moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-956053452003-06-12T17:29:00.000-04:002003-06-12T17:36:34.000-04:00And now for something completely different...GBG as a budding young artist!
We'll take a short break from horses (though I will definitely be following this budding rivalry between Funny Cide and Empire Maker!...Onward to the Travers!!!)
I wanted to touch quickly on a couple of things from earlier days. In regards to the Baghdad Museum and looting that went on (or didn't go on) I have to moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-954332132003-06-08T15:35:00.000-04:002003-06-08T15:39:13.000-04:00NO JOY IN MUDVILLE (aka Belmont Park!) but....THREE CHEERS FOR EMPIRE MAKER and NYer Bobby Frankel!!!
This horse racing fan is not as chipper today following the loss of NYs own Funny Cide. Now I ask you, is there a gamer horse out there? I don't know...but it was an AMAZING day. There was so much good will throughout the race track for Funny Cide and his team, if a horse could have won on moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-952647082003-06-03T22:23:00.000-04:002003-06-03T22:27:38.000-04:00MORE RAIN? Anyone fancy helping me build an ark?
I never seem to have the right attire lately for this rain, either too warm for the weather (my trusted and beloved Barbour) or not waterproof enough (my JCrew barn coat). I say this, but if you were to look into my coat closet, you'd sigh and just say I was being difficult. *and you'd be right!*
It started out so nice today, the sun was moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-952472122003-06-03T14:16:00.000-04:002003-06-03T22:04:47.000-04:00The Salt Lake Tribune -- The Belmont Stakes: What It Takes to Win
A FUNNY CIDE TO SECRETARIATmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-952174482003-06-02T22:16:00.000-04:002003-06-02T22:23:22.000-04:00A Funny thing could happen on the way to Belmont... Great piece from The Thoroughbred Times.
Cheers,moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-952047082003-06-02T15:41:00.000-04:002003-06-02T15:55:46.000-04:00The unkindest cut of all... or how to make your fiery stallion a star athlete.
In my continuing effort to keep you totally up to date with Funny Cide and Belmont news, I bring forward this wonderfully concise article on from the 1st June, 2003, Times (NY). Gelding (you can see the males out there shifting uncomfortably) has clearly helped make Funny Cide the great horse that he is, and I for moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-951748252003-06-01T23:08:00.000-04:002003-06-01T23:08:24.450-04:00It's the call to the post!!!!
I'm going to warn you all that as of now, and for the next six days or so, I will be Gotham Horse Girl. With the Belmont Stakes on Saturday can there be anything else of substance? (OK...there's lots more....but we have to FOCUS here!!)
There are so many great stories that surround NY's own Funny Cide...this one involves his trainers. I don't know about you allmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-951396512003-05-31T23:23:00.000-04:002003-05-31T23:29:35.000-04:00Saturday night and a fairly bland egg salad sandwich has sent my mind wandering to tastier delights. A couple of days ago when I was singing the praises of Worcester, Massachusetts, I meant also to add our favourite little place in Boston. Elephant Walk is a French-Cambodian restaurant in Brookline, and it is truly delightful. The flavours, spices and ingredients are all top rate and fresh, moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-951242142003-05-31T12:43:00.000-04:002003-05-31T12:51:53.000-04:00Another rainy/overcast weekend. *sigh* My friends in England are enjoying typical American summer weather...nice and warm and sunny to boot. Who'd have guessed?
The NY Times Summer Reading List is out! Always fun to peruse the list and decide what are good beach reads, train/subway reads, serious reads and even some "fantasy reads" (those for me being travel related books...whereby escape moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-950601092003-05-29T21:50:00.000-04:002003-05-29T21:51:30.000-04:00They say there are a million stories in the naked city...so who knows how many are out there in the country? If any of you have been as keen on Funny Cide, the NY bred gelding that will contest for the third jewel in the Triple Crown next weekend, then this story will appeal. Great article from The Times about an owner and his horses (whom he names after Frank Sinatra songs) who is not your moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-950475692003-05-29T15:50:00.000-04:002003-05-29T16:59:44.000-04:00Happy Thursday!
While the whole of the publishing world (marketers, publicists and sales folk) is busily descending on the City of Angels for Book Expo, it gives the rest of us quiet little worker bees some time to clear the decks. I have fantasies of actually clearing off my desk and seeing what is beneath all the papers...if I recall it was cherry...hmmm. I'll have to confirm that rumour!moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-949658862003-05-27T21:16:00.000-04:002003-05-27T21:16:25.436-04:00It sure seemed like Monday in this girls little corner of Manhattan. I returned from my blissful sojourn to the north only to find IT on my desk....IT being the BFH. Signatures bound, images in their places, a nice shiny cover to boot! One might think on first glance that is was a real and scholarly volume...not a bad karma saddled bit of pulp! Ok Ok. I concede that it is a gorgeous book, moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-948773752003-05-25T21:16:00.000-04:002003-05-25T21:16:58.383-04:00New York on Sunday...there is nothing like hearing Bobby Darin croon a tune. A rainy, soft day here in Gotham. On these sorts of days...as with snowy winter days...the city seems to become enveloped in a timeless fog. On sunny days all the steel and glass of the city don't let you forget that it is the 21st century, but when it is rainy or foggy...or snowy...New York City becomes this timelessmoihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-948433592003-05-24T20:50:00.000-04:002003-05-24T21:09:25.000-04:00My kingdom for a horse! In the past month it has been sheer joy watching the Preakness Stakes and the Kentucky Derby be won by Funny Cide an underdog horse from NY state. Ever since I was a little girl I have been horse crazy (thanks again for those riding lessons Mom and Dad!!) and I have never been able to get over it. From reading Black Beauty and the Billy and Blaze series by CW Anderson moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-948370172003-05-24T16:03:00.000-04:002003-05-24T16:26:26.000-04:00Gotham Book Girl Lives!! Rumours of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I would love to say that I had spent the last month hot on the trail of looted Iraqi antiquities...but I had sorting to do...personal, work, family, home...all sorts of sorting. I can happily report, however, that I am indeed sorted and back on form.
Before I get to news, girl talk about The Musial, etc. A few updates.
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-928624662003-04-18T19:32:00.000-04:002003-04-18T19:33:26.000-04:00Stop the madness!!!
While lolling around on the couch today, reading horoscopes and the goofy stuff on the AOL welcome screen...I happened upon this little news gem. Apparently Jen and Ben are planning to star in a Casablanca remake in the roles made famous by Bogart and Bergman. Allegedly they are fans of the original and can't wait to do this. Who told them this was a good idea???????
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-928420452003-04-18T11:50:00.000-04:002003-04-18T11:53:52.000-04:00YIKES!!! it is a cooooold spring Good Friday today! I'm out sick today with the stomach flu that won't go away - (where is mom and the ginger ale when 'ya need her???) This means I won't be at mass today, so there will have to be some extra indulgences purchased on my behalf I guess.
It is pretty rare that I am out of work sick, so I am just truly amazed at the plethora of *unique* daytime moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-927304882003-04-16T14:52:00.000-04:002003-04-16T14:57:47.000-04:00While I am a bit disappointed that it took rather a while for the national media to get on the story of the Baghdad Museum, I am thrilled that they finally have...and that they are taking it seriously. Maureen Dowd's column in the NYTimes really says it all. This is a tragedy...NO it is not anything approaching the human tragedy, but this is important. I hope archaeologists and museum moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-927188992003-04-16T11:10:00.000-04:002003-04-16T11:10:20.950-04:00Summer has come to New York!! (Of course, it appears that the rainy season will be visiting us again soon...) It is GORGISSSSSS out there today, and that makes working indoors too, too cruel. *sigh* Alas, it is good to be back amongst the living, a few days worth of stomach flu makes one very glad for the normal routines of daily life...like COFFEE.
More to come later on and hope you all moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-925090712003-04-12T21:44:00.000-04:002003-04-12T21:48:15.000-04:00
Minnesota hats off to thee! To thy colors true we will ever be! Firm and strong, united are we! Rah rah rah for Ski-U-Mah..Rah rah rah rah rah....RAH for the U of M!
You can take the girl out of Minnesota...but ...well you know the rest. There is still alot of Minnesota in the girl. Well done to the National Champion Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota. It's a great day to play moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-925050022003-04-12T19:36:00.000-04:002003-04-12T19:56:32.000-04:00
The Musial reminded me earlier today that a year ago we were in Paris ~ enroute to Athens ~ but that today was one of our really special days. We had decided to spend a cool rainy afternoon at Pere Lachaise . It was one of those days that you never want to end. We chose not to visit any of the really high profile graves (Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf are among the famous that have moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-925026742003-04-12T18:24:00.000-04:002003-04-12T19:51:56.000-04:00Happily I announce the reappearance of THE SUN! After many days of rain and cold, we are being rewarded with glorious sunshine. A nice long walk in Central Park has chased all the cobwebs away and I had a very productive afternoon of editing in the sunshine. The book I am working on now is quite timely -- about a variety of ancients, and a far-faring pilgrimage -- but also very much about the moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-924965702003-04-12T15:36:00.000-04:002003-04-12T18:46:56.000-04:00I haven't been angry since we attacked Iraq. I have been hurt, saddened, worried, anxious, disappointed and many other things, but not angry til now. Let me first make it perfectly clear that I completely support and admire the brave men and women who are over there in harms way. They didn't decide on this war, and we owe them our prayers and support.
Sadly, in a war, there are so many moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-924600542003-04-11T20:52:00.000-04:002003-04-11T21:40:29.000-04:00 SpongeBob! Okay...I'm perhaps a little old for cartoons, but I have to admit that it is a little nice to relax after a long day with the something that requires very little thought.
So it is Friday night here in the big city. I am totally spent from a long week, and really looking forward to having some quiet time with The Musial.
For anyone who read the earlier entry about the Book moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-924514232003-04-11T17:19:00.000-04:002003-04-11T21:57:34.000-04:00
Happiness is a warm quilt and a tabby cat! This furry little feline friend is none other than Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Moskowitz Davidusky Schmenckmann..better known as Jack Schmenckmann, or Nana (short for Nanabijou, an Ojibwa word meaning sleeping giant, which is a fairly apt description of our chubby cat). Being the only cat in a household full of quilts means that Jack gets moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-924432592003-04-11T14:43:00.000-04:002003-04-11T14:49:34.000-04:00It is Friday at last ~ and a cold rainy one, too! It is that windy damp weather that makes you feel as though you ought to hear Heathcliff...Heathcliff...whispering across the moors. *sigh* It is also the perfect day to just curl up with a good book or a good boy -hee hee - and weather the storm.
Alas...this book girl is being buffeted by the winds of Greenwich Village as I sit here and try moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-924076822003-04-11T00:39:00.000-04:002003-05-29T14:42:03.000-04:00
It is always hard to bid adieu to old friends...but on April 12 we Gothamites will be saying fare-thee-well to the subway token. Yes we will still have a few in our pockets and change purses, but they will no longer be valid for subway fares. Progress is difficult, and I like everyone else use my trusty Metrocard every day...but I will miss the tokens, not just because they are something moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-923928202003-04-10T19:58:00.000-04:002003-04-12T15:24:32.000-04:00
The Brooklyn Bridge, one of NYC's most memorable landmarks. I love photographing bridges generally, but this one is a great favourite! As Gay Talese writes in The Bridge his homage to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge..."A great bridge is a poetic construction of enduring beauty and utility." Below is the Chain Bridge in Budapest...another beautiful landmark over another great river...the elegant moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-923851762003-04-10T17:33:00.000-04:002003-04-10T17:36:46.000-04:00*sigh* I find myself missing Paris today...so I post one of my favourite pictures from my last journey there. About a year ago, The Musial and I were there and it was phenomenal. We had both been there several times before, but it is so much more meaningful when you are there with someone you love. We stayed in Montmarte at the Timhotel Montmartre with the most gorgeous view of Sacre Coeur.moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-923847412003-04-10T17:25:00.000-04:002003-04-10T17:25:31.060-04:00moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-923768852003-04-10T15:04:00.000-04:002003-04-10T21:43:31.000-04:00The sun'll come out...todayyyyyy. (Though it looks like another rainy one tomorrow.)
It is a hazily sunny day, and I must note after the mid day rant that I furiously typed yesterday, today is much better. Any day that progresses without any contact with the author of the BFH is a fine and dandy one for this girl :)
A thought for today...from a book I am editing that has at turns had me moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-923243542003-04-09T20:10:00.000-04:002003-04-10T19:34:09.000-04:00Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home! *sigh* Well the work day finally ended, and BFH is still not all sorted. It's out of my hands now, and I'll have to hope for better things tomorrow.
Amidst all this drama, there was a very nice moment courtesy of The Musial. ***First, a small note about The Musial...he is the best guy around, I think. He lives in Boston, so I don't see moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-922998322003-04-09T12:43:00.000-04:002003-04-09T12:47:24.000-04:00It's only mid day, but I am in need of a serious rant. ** I probably ought to preface this little diatribe with a couple of facts. I work for a great independent publisher, and because we are smallish, everyone here wears a few different hats. Generally this is GREAT because you get involved in aspects of the book that you might not get to be part of in a larger house. My job is a real moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-922591452003-04-08T21:41:00.000-04:002003-04-10T20:29:08.000-04:00Who is Gotham Book Girl? What does she want? Why should anyone read this?
Those are the big ticket questions, I guess. If I really knew exactly who I was I probably wouldn't be writing this...but the general details are as follows...
1. Non-native NYer
2. Publishing (editorial, nonfiction)
3. Female, 35
4. Pisces
5. Connected to the man I LOVE, who will be referred to, henceforth, as moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261099.post-922436462003-04-08T16:48:00.000-04:002003-04-08T17:58:42.000-04:00Welcome! Ok, I am admittedly an abslolute virgin at this. But hey, who knows, this may prove to be a real kick.
Cheers for now,
moihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06766617024394533351noreply@blogger.com