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05/07/2024

https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2024-05-06/beethovens-ninth

For the first century of its existence, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 could only be experienced live in a concert hall. Its second century has produced a flood of recordings — shaped by, and shaping, the way we listen.

06/15/2023

Editor extraordinaire, Robert Gottlieb, R.I.P.

At Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, he polished the work of a who’s who of mid-to-late 20th century writers.

10/11/2022

A fantastic little gift for
people excited by words.

“I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.” —Gertrude Stein Whether you wholeheartedly agree with Stein, or are simply nostalgic for the classrooms of a bygone era, these witty and beautifully designed postcards will speak to you. Each postcard ...

10/12/2020

We were pleasantly surprised, to put it mildly, by a story about a book we edited and did art direction for. "Shotgunning in the Automatic Mind; The Creation of the Most Beautiful Shotgun Instruction Book Ever Published" by Irwin Greenstein in Shotgun Life Magazine. Wow.
https://www.shotgunlife.com/kquw

10/03/2020

An excellent rule for good writing. Following it keeps things so much clearer.
In the interest of following the rule of being succinct, I won't elaborate.

3 tips to improve your writing skills.

09/11/2020

Some folks in the business just lack vision.

09/03/2020

There's nothing quite like a positive review in a high-quality publication. "Gray's Sporting Journal" is top-notch. Their book reviewer wrote this about SHOTGUNNING IN THE AUTOMATIC MIND, a book for which I was editor, art director, dust jacket designer: "Warren Watson and Mike Wilfley have produced an important, perhaps a landmark book on the shooting art."

08/05/2020

Something different about writing and other things in life.
About the author: "Odie Lindsey’s novel, Some Go Home, is set in Mississippi, a state whose music is often the most known representation of race, class, and cultural identity. Woven into the novel are threads of hill country blues, sacred steel gospel, and country. (The book takes its name from a 1970 Jerry Jeff Walker song.) Lindsey’s short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories and earned an NEA arts grant. His story collection, We Come to Our Senses, was also published by W.W. Norton. He is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society."

I like to play an old vinyl copy of Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger for my child. She’s six, and she perks up with the song “Hands on the Wheel,” which I have forever sung as her lullaby. She d…