Artists & authors a life in good company

From the author of Five Generations in Publishing comes this new collection of personal essays reflecting on the past fifty years of his pursuits and passions in literature, art, and music. Beginning with a memoir of his father's tutelage through letters to a young son away at school, it moves along...

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Main Author: Scribner, Charles, 1951- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Essex : Lyons Press, 2026.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Lux Umbra Dei
  • Books & Company-- Digging for Diamonds: A Father's Tutelage
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: From Princeton to Paradise
  • Tender is the Night: Fitzgerald's Credo
  • Ernest Hemingway-"First: Last"-- Crying Wolfe: "Last Poem"-- Five Best Books on Family Businesses
  • Old Masters-- Caravaggio: Shadows into Light-- Rubens and Bernini: Artists Who Didn't Starve-- Rubens Meets Miami Vice-- Michelangelo Revisited
  • Velásquez and Teresa: "God Among the Pots and Pans"
  • Transfigurations: The Late Bernini Bernini's Cristo Vivo The Garden of Love-from Rubens to Mozart
  • The Vocal Arts
  • Sacred Music: "The Holy Art"
  • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Reflections at Twilight
  • Frederica von Stade: Flicka in the Firmament
  • Mary Costa: A Star that Sparkles Envoi: Home by Another Route.