I got this e-mail earlier today from my editor at Harcourt, publishers of All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine:
ALL IN THE DANCES gets a starred and large and boxed (jointly
with Bob Gottlieb’s book) review in today’s all-important Publishers
Weekly–congratulations. It really couldn’t be more prominent or positive
and includes a cover shot.
Publishers have been known to put on a happy face when it comes to pre-publication reviews, but I just saw a fax of the Publishers Weekly box, and Harcourt wasn’t kidding:
“Balanchine was every bit as important as Matisse,” says literary critic Teachout (The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken), who writes for the viewer who doesn’t know a pass