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...Worked as a film critic for Britain's The Spectator magazine from...
...Mantel's writing is so exact and brilliant that, in itself, it seems an act of survival, even redemption." - Joan Acocella, The New Yorker critic, reviewing Mantel's 2006 novel A Place of Greater Safety...
...Hilary Mantel's win comes with just the faintest twinge of regret from those of us who have always regarded her as our secret." - Claire Armitstead, critic, writing about Mantel's Booker win in the Guardian...
...February, 2008, had a marked effect: the value of wine imported into the city in 2008 surged by more than 80%. As wine shops, tasting seminars and cellars proliferated, more Hong Kong residents began taking an interest in drinking wine, not just investing in it. Said noted wine critic Jancis Robinson, editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine: "I have never before, in my 30-plus years in wine, witnessed a government so consciously targeting the fine-wine market." (Watch Joel Stein drink his way through wine from ten different U.S. states...
...hard facts are that Gourmet, whose whole reason for being was its lushness, was an expensive magazine to produce. It had a famous editor, Ruth Reichl, a former food critic of the New York Times and the author of several best sellers. Since taking over in 1999, she steered the periodical to three National Magazine Awards. That level of achievement is pricey, and at just over 900,000 subscribers, Gourmet had only about two-thirds of the readers of Bon Appétit. Plus, it made less money per page of advertising. (Read "From Natural Disaster Comes ... an Instant Magazine...