By Barbara Quick The Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina became a writer at the age of 46, when — against all odds as someone who only learned English as an adult — she penned a richly detailed, wonderfully written memoir for the English-speaking world: Theatre Street, first published in London in 1931. I sought out the
By Robin J. Miller Google “how to write a book” and you get masses of advice, mostly divided into a series of “simple,” or better yet, “amazingly simple,” steps to publishing success. Many share a similar first step — “develop a writer’s mindset” — which might be great advice, but for me, a freelance writer
By Michael Crabb Clement Crisp, the eminent, irreverent, and some might argue outrageous late dean of British dance critics, did not believe in half measures. His freely admitted but always well-argued prejudices oscillated from one extreme to the other, even within the frame of a single review. For example, in the matter of a Tanztheater