"I'm a documentarian of what I do. Stories never die. Stories are never over."
Under the townhouse where the legendary writer Gay Talese and his wife, Nan, have lived for over half a century is what Talese calls his “subterranean think tank.” Every day, Talese leaves his home, locks his door, walks down an elegantly curved outdoor staircase through a separate entrance, and enters this lush underground office. -- : The New Yorker
[**Sidenote: The origins of the title phrase "Something Wonderful" are found in Nan Talese's compulsion to pitch all her books as "wonderful" during the years in the late 1980s when I worked with her at Houghton Mifflin.]
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 20, 2012 9:39 AM
...and here I kept hearing Bowman's voice every time I read the phrase.
Oh, well...
Posted by: leelu at October 20, 2012 12:39 PMI always thought "Something wonderful" came from "2001 A Space Odyssey"
Posted by: Raoul at October 20, 2012 4:01 PMWell, Mr. Vanderleun, you have found a few of the brain droppings of mine as "Something Wonderful", and for that, I'm deeply grateful.
Posted by: Jewel at October 21, 2012 1:49 AMRaoul,
Close. "2010" Just before HAL blasts the Discovery and the Russin ship out of Jupiter orbit.
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