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...plummeting sales are no laughing matter. (There has been no drop in sales for champagne or cognac, which aren't as prone to replacement by New World competitors.) No wonder the managing board of the Federation of Wine and Spirits Exporters decided that its president, Patrick Ricard, would write a discreet letter to Chirac this week. "We don't want to get in the debate about politics," says Latour, "just sensitize him to the fact that we're having trouble selling our wine." Diplomacy, the French like to say, is sovereign; commerce ranks somewhere below. And angry wine merchants alone...
...Rhodes, the chief appeal of writing for a living was not having to get up in the morning. In spite of that slacker attitude, Rhodes, 31, this month finds himself on Granta magazine's prestigious decennial list of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists, standing on the shoulders of giants like Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, and rubbing his own with publishing hotshots Zadie Smith and Toby Litt. Rhodes' presence there is all the more remarkable since his first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate; 214 pages), is only now arriving in bookstores and is likely...
...Working in business allowed me to remove myself from the dictates of academic culture and secure the freedom to write in my own way,” he says...
...believe you come out of The Crimson knowing how to write a 10-12 inch news story on deadline. If a journalism school only taught that, it would not be at all attractive,” Lemann said...
...write a lot of music just walking through Cambridge. My favorite is Brattle Street, because it’s kind of empty and you can sing out loud to yourself and work things out in your head. But I try not to be that guy with the acoustic guitar who sits in front of the MAC crooning angsty love songs. I hate that...