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Anatomy for Artists | Sebastian Cipriani  

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Sebastian Stan attends The Gothams 34th Annual Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on December 02, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Anatomy for Artists

Sebastian Cipriani  

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By Alex Vadukul

As the tang of Canadian wildfire smoke wafted through Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday evening, hundreds of writers, editors and book industry veterans crowded into Cipriani’s cavernous ballroom on East 42nd Street to attend the centenary celebration of W.W. Norton & Company, the oldest and largest independently owned publishing house in the country.

Authors hung out by the bar sipping the evening’s signature cocktail, the Norton Cranthology, a mojito named after “The Norton Anthology of English Literature,” the doorstop compendium that has been a part of college curriculums since the 1960s.

The company’s sea gull colophon was projected onto walls. Tables were decorated with piles of classic Norton titles like “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan and “The Perfect Storm” by Sebastian Junger. Tote bags handed out to attendees came with a plushie of a baby gull named Norty.

To those in attendance, 100 years of Norton meant something, because there’s no other publishing house quite like it.

The memoirist Saïd Sayrafiezadeh with a copy of “The Measure of Manhattan,” a biography of the surveyor John Randel Jr. published by Norton. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Norton’s sea gull logo. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Co-founded in 1923 by William Warder Norton, the company began as a press for science and philosophy books. As it grew, it established itself with its canon-making anthologies, the novel “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess and “Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis” by Robert F. Kennedy.

Shortly after Mr. Norton’s death in 1945, his wife, Mary Dows Herter Norton, who was known as Polly and ran the company with him, entrusted it to its employees, creating the ethos of independence that defines Norton to this day.

While other legacy American houses have been swallowed up by European companies and corporate consolidation, Norton has occupied an increasingly defiant space in the industry as the only major publisher owned by its employees. The centenary bash at Cipriani was a celebration of the company’s refusal to capitulate.

To drive the message home, Norton asked five of its star authors to give speeches, and each was introduced onto the stage by the firm’s president, Julia Reidhead. First up was Michael Lewis, who has been a Norton author since the publication of his first book, “Liar’s Poker,” in 1989.

“Thirty-five years ago, I had the preposterous idea to write a book,” Mr. Lewis told the crowd. “I’d never set foot in a publishing house. I visited seven, eight, nine of these places. One of them was very much not like the others.”

The Norton offices, he added, resembled “your grandmother’s attic — after she died.”

The poet, essayist and fiction writer Rita Dove. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

He ended by praising the company for deciding not to go along with industry trends, saying: “I’m grateful for your ability to resist temptation. Everybody else has been led down various paths and you have not.”

In her speech, Joy Harjo, the United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022, recalled receiving a rejection letter from Norton in the 1980s, before eventually forming a partnership with the company that has lasted 30 years.

Neil Gaiman commended Norton as a stable haven for its authors, before describing the overall publishing industry as a once “healthy ecosystem” that had been consumed by “vast crepuscular creatures, somewhere between jellyfish and giant squid.” Rita Dove read a poem from her 1999 collection, “On the Bus With Rosa Parks.” And Richard Powers described his arrival to Norton as a third marriage that finally worked out.

Mr. Powers, who lives in the Great Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee, had flown to New York for the party. “They’re able to engage with books without looking over their shoulder and thinking, What’s corporate going to think?” he said in an offstage interview as guests nearby feasted on lobster salad and fusilli served with eggplant and mozzarella. “As a self-owned entity, Norton is essentially good old-fashioned 19th-century socialism.”

“When I told my editor I had a 560-page novel about trees, he didn’t bat an eye,” he added, referring to his Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “The Overstory.”

Norton’s offerings include books by Richard Powers, Neil Gaiman, Joy Harjo and Michael Lewis. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Richard Powers said that Norton is different from other publishers. “They’re able to engage with books without looking over their shoulder and thinking, What’s corporate going to think?” he said. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Tote bags handed out to attendees came with a plush baby sea gull named Norty. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Amid the swinging jazz sounds of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Lake Micah, an editor who works for Harper’s Magazine and The Drift, nursed a whiskey sour.

“Now everyone’s about the bottom line, but Norton has persisted in spite of that,” he said. “And that’s because of the great faculty of worker-owned labor power, which is something that emanates from the left.”

He expressed some skepticism about the big bash.

“I mean, we’re here at Cipriani, so you can only imagine how much this all cost,” Mr. Micah said. “They’re still a business. They’re arguably doing the bare minimum in terms of what’s right, because all workers should deserve what’s fair.”

As the night drew to a close and publishing people mobbed the open bar for one last round, Alexia Norton Jones sat on a couch taking in the scene. Her presence represented a living link to the company’s heritage: She is a granddaughter of its founders.

Alexia Norton Jones is a granddaughter of the company’s founders. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

“Some people here don’t even know who I am, but I don’t mind,” she said. “When Grandma Polly died, she didn’t want a dynasty. She didn’t want the company to have a nepotistic aspect. I’m a granddaughter of Norton, but they’re also all Norton.”

Ms. Norton Jones took a pen and drew a sea gull on a cocktail napkin, explaining that the logo was based on the pair of W’s in her grandfather’s signature. She also recalled visiting her grandmother at the Gramercy Park Hotel, where she’d watch her write in her diaries with green ink.

An early Norton president, George P. Brockway, once said that the house“has never been for sale and is not likely to be.” When asked whether that was still the case decades later, Ms. Norton Jones didn’t hesitate in her reply.

“I don’t believe it will ever be for sale,” she said. “That would be the antithesis of everything Norton stands for.”

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By Alex Vadukul

As the tang of Canadian wildfire smoke wafted through Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday evening, hundreds of writers, editors and book industry veterans crowded into Cipriani’s cavernous ballroom on East 42nd Street to attend the centenary celebration of W.W. Norton & Company, the oldest and largest independently owned publishing house in the country.

Authors hung out by the bar sipping the evening’s signature cocktail, the Norton Cranthology, a mojito named after “The Norton Anthology of English Literature,” the doorstop compendium that has been a part of college curriculums since the 1960s.

The company’s sea gull colophon was projected onto walls. Tables were decorated with piles of classic Norton titles like “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan and “The Perfect Storm” by Sebastian Junger. Tote bags handed out to attendees came with a plushie of a baby gull named Norty.

To those in attendance, 100 years of Norton meant something, because there’s no other publishing house quite like it.

The memoirist Saïd Sayrafiezadeh with a copy of “The Measure of Manhattan,” a biography of the surveyor John Randel Jr. published by Norton. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Norton’s sea gull logo. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Co-founded in 1923 by William Warder Norton, the company began as a press for science and philosophy books. As it grew, it established itself with its canon-making anthologies, the novel “A Clockwork Orange” by Anthony Burgess and “Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis” by Robert F. Kennedy.

Shortly after Mr. Norton’s death in 1945, his wife, Mary Dows Herter Norton, who was known as Polly and ran the company with him, entrusted it to its employees, creating the ethos of independence that defines Norton to this day.

While other legacy American houses have been swallowed up by European companies and corporate consolidation, Norton has occupied an increasingly defiant space in the industry as the only major publisher owned by its employees. The centenary bash at Cipriani was a celebration of the company’s refusal to capitulate.

To drive the message home, Norton asked five of its star authors to give speeches, and each was introduced onto the stage by the firm’s president, Julia Reidhead. First up was Michael Lewis, who has been a Norton author since the publication of his first book, “Liar’s Poker,” in 1989.

“Thirty-five years ago, I had the preposterous idea to write a book,” Mr. Lewis told the crowd. “I’d never set foot in a publishing house. I visited seven, eight, nine of these places. One of them was very much not like the others.”

The Norton offices, he added, resembled “your grandmother’s attic — after she died.”

The poet, essayist and fiction writer Rita Dove. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

He ended by praising the company for deciding not to go along with industry trends, saying: “I’m grateful for your ability to resist temptation. Everybody else has been led down various paths and you have not.”

In her speech, Joy Harjo, the United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022, recalled receiving a rejection letter from Norton in the 1980s, before eventually forming a partnership with the company that has lasted 30 years.

Neil Gaiman commended Norton as a stable haven for its authors, before describing the overall publishing industry as a once “healthy ecosystem” that had been consumed by “vast crepuscular creatures, somewhere between jellyfish and giant squid.” Rita Dove read a poem from her 1999 collection, “On the Bus With Rosa Parks.” And Richard Powers described his arrival to Norton as a third marriage that finally worked out.

Mr. Powers, who lives in the Great Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee, had flown to New York for the party. “They’re able to engage with books without looking over their shoulder and thinking, What’s corporate going to think?” he said in an offstage interview as guests nearby feasted on lobster salad and fusilli served with eggplant and mozzarella. “As a self-owned entity, Norton is essentially good old-fashioned 19th-century socialism.”

“When I told my editor I had a 560-page novel about trees, he didn’t bat an eye,” he added, referring to his Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “The Overstory.”

Norton’s offerings include books by Richard Powers, Neil Gaiman, Joy Harjo and Michael Lewis. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Richard Powers said that Norton is different from other publishers. “They’re able to engage with books without looking over their shoulder and thinking, What’s corporate going to think?” he said. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Tote bags handed out to attendees came with a plush baby sea gull named Norty. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

Amid the swinging jazz sounds of Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, Lake Micah, an editor who works for Harper’s Magazine and The Drift, nursed a whiskey sour.

“Now everyone’s about the bottom line, but Norton has persisted in spite of that,” he said. “And that’s because of the great faculty of worker-owned labor power, which is something that emanates from the left.”

He expressed some skepticism about the big bash.

“I mean, we’re here at Cipriani, so you can only imagine how much this all cost,” Mr. Micah said. “They’re still a business. They’re arguably doing the bare minimum in terms of what’s right, because all workers should deserve what’s fair.”

As the night drew to a close and publishing people mobbed the open bar for one last round, Alexia Norton Jones sat on a couch taking in the scene. Her presence represented a living link to the company’s heritage: She is a granddaughter of its founders.

Alexia Norton Jones is a granddaughter of the company’s founders. Credit...Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times

“Some people here don’t even know who I am, but I don’t mind,” she said. “When Grandma Polly died, she didn’t want a dynasty. She didn’t want the company to have a nepotistic aspect. I’m a granddaughter of Norton, but they’re also all Norton.”

Ms. Norton Jones took a pen and drew a sea gull on a cocktail napkin, explaining that the logo was based on the pair of W’s in her grandfather’s signature. She also recalled visiting her grandmother at the Gramercy Park Hotel, where she’d watch her write in her diaries with green ink.

An early Norton president, George P. Brockway, once said that the house“has never been for sale and is not likely to be.” When asked whether that was still the case decades later, Ms. Norton Jones didn’t hesitate in her reply.

“I don’t believe it will ever be for sale,” she said. “That would be the antithesis of everything Norton stands for.”

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3 Luglio 2021

Oggi sono nati:

Francesca Cipriani ☹️

Tom Cruise 😐

Flavio Insinna 🙂

Franz Kafka 🙂

Walter Veltroni ☹️

Sebastian Vettel 🙂

E sono morti:

Jim Morrison 🥺

Paolo Villaggio 🥺

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sebastian cipriani, the dishonored

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Tiers of the Batfamily

Founding Member: Bruce Wayne

Crucial Support: Alfred Pennyworth, Leslie Thompkins, Lucius Fox, Kate Kane, Selina Kyle, Victoria October, Harold Allnut, Julia Pennyworth

Additional Adult Support: Eiko Hasigawa, Jean-Paul Valley, Sasha Bordeaux, Michael Lane, Calvin Rose, Gavin King, Rocky Ballantine, Sonia Alcana, Rochelle Wayne, Charles Bullock

Batgirls and Robins: Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Duke Thomas, Nell Little, Tiffany Fox, Damian Wayne, Helena Wayne, Bette Kane

Additional Former and Current Batkids: Helena Bertinelli, Harper Row, Luke Fox, Tam Fox, Kate Duquesne, Alysia Yeoh, Maya Ducard, Colin Wilkes, Wendy Harris, Holly Robinson, Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe, Claire Clover, Maps Mizoguchi, Kitrina Falcone, Alina Wayne, Athanasia Al Ghul, Mary Wills, Tina Sung, Tris Plover, Barbara Wilson, Robin Redblade, Cullen Row, Tallant Wayne, Scarlet, The Heretic

Batman Incorporated: Jiro Osamu, David Zavimbe, William Eagle, Raven Red, Don Santiago, Johnny Riley, George Cross, Bilal Asselah, Cyril Sheldrake, Beryl Hutchinson, Wang Baixi (from the Justice League of China)

We Are Robin: Riko Sheridan, Daxton Chill, Dre Cipriani, Taylor, Travis Price, Troy Walker, Isabella Ortiz, Shug-R, Tancredi

Friends in the GCPD: Jim Gordon, Renee Montoya, Maggie Sawyer, Billie Harper, Steve Smith, Cissy Chambers, Jason Bard, Clancy O’Hara (because I’m Batman ’66 trash and always will be)

The Outsiders: Gardner Grayle, Jefferson Pierce, Francine Langstrom, Kimiyo Hoshi, Freddy Freeman, Grace Choi, Nema, Eric Moran, Brion Markov, Violet Harper, Indigo, Jade Yifei, Tatsu Yamashiro, Michael Holt, Emily Briggs, Roy Raymond Jr., Rex Mason, Geoffrey Barron, Jack Wheeler, Salah Miandad, Charlie Wylde, Achilles Warkiller, Anissa Pierce, Wendy Jones

Outside Friends and Family: Kory Anders, Mar’i Grayson, Jake Grayson, Tommy Grayson, Frankie Charles, Nadimah Ali, Qadir Ali, Talia Al Ghul, Dinah Lance, Diana Prince, Zatanna Zatara, Jo Yeoh, Lian Harper, Roy Harper, Donna Troy, Clark Kent, Wally West, Rani Grayson, Sam Young, Dawn Granger, Hank Hall, Rachel Roth, Garfield Logan, Victor Stone, Rose Wilson, Joey Wilson, Zinda Blake, Kenan Kong, Avery Ho, Peng Deilan, Ariana Dzerchenko, Matthew Drake, Janet Drake, Lucy Quinzel, Arizona Young, Alice Tesla, Thomas Wayne Jr., Agatha Wayne, Mina Wayne, Philip Wayne, Alice Chilton, Van Wayne, Jacob Kane, Catherine Hamilton, Philip Kane, Daphne Pennyworth, Beatrice Bennett, Bridget Clancy, Cheyenne Freemont, Yolanda Montez, Sebastian Ives, Callie Evans, Kevin Hudman, Zoanne Wilkins, Christine Montclair, Lance Bruner, Harriet Cooper (see again, Batman ‘66 trash)

Batman Beyond: Terry McGinnis, Maxine Gibson, Nissa, Dana Tan, Matt McGinnis, Elainna Grayson

Family Pets: Goliath, Ace, Jerry, Titus, Alfred, Batcow

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New Post has been published on https://www.stl.news/sex-abuse-political-turmoil-overshadow-pope-in-chile-peru/66653/

Sex abuse, political turmoil overshadow pope in Chile, Peru

VATICAN CITY/January 12, 2018(AP)(STL.News)— Pope Francis’ trip to Chile and Peru, originally aimed at highlighting the plight of indigenous peoples and the delicate Amazon ecosystem, is being overshadowed by the Catholic Church‘s dismal record confronting priestly sex abuse in Chile and political turmoil in Peru.

On the eve of the trip, vandals attacked five churches with firebombs in the Chilean capital of Santiago and warned in a leaflet that “the next bombs will be in your cassock.” That was an unprecedented threat against the pope and a violent start to what were already expected to be the first-ever protests against Francis on a foreign trip.

The Vatican agreed to the Chile visit knowing that the local church had lost much of the moral authority it earned during the Pinochet dictatorship, when bishops spoke out against human rights abuses when other institutions were silenced. But now, the Catholic Church in Chile has been largely marginalized, criticized as out-of-touch with today’s secular youth and discredited by its botched handling of a notorious pedophile priest.

In Peru, Francis had hoped to highlight the need to protect the vast Amazon and its native peoples. But he now has to contend with a president who only narrowly escaped impeachment a few weeks ago, sparked massive protests by issuing a politically-charged pardon and is embroiled in a continentwide corruption scandal.

Here are things to look for in Francis’ Jan. 15-21 trip, his 22nd overall and sixth to his home continent. ___

THE POPE AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

History’s first Latin American pope will meet with indigenous groups in both Chile and Peru, evidence of his longstanding commitment to supporting native Americans in their struggles against poverty, discrimination and the exploitation of their lands.

The Chilean stop is more delicate: Francis will celebrate Mass for the Mapuche in southern Araucania on Wednesday and then break bread with a dozen or so indigenous at a private lunch.

But the visit comes as some radical Mapuche groups have been staging violent protests, occupying and burning farms, churches and lumber trucks to demand the return of their land. Protests are planned in Temuco during Francis’ visit, and pamphlets left Friday outside the burned churches in Santiago exhorted the Mapuche cause.

Chile’s largest indigenous group resisted conquest for 300 years, until military defeats in the late 19th century forced them into Araucania. Many Mapuche there now live in poverty on the borders of timber company land or ranches owned by the descendants of the Europeans who colonized the area after the indigenous resistance was quelled. ___

THE POPE, MIGRANTS AND THE POOR

Francis, whose defense of refugees and migrants is well-known, is expected to address Chile’s growing immigrant community when he travels Thursday to the northern city of Iquique, home to nearly two dozen migrant slums. Even though its numbers are comparatively small, Chile had the fastest annual rate of migrant growth of any country in Latin American in 2010-2015, according to U.N. and church statistics.

Most of the newcomers are Haitians. While Chile isn’t experiencing the anti-immigrant backlash seen in the U.S. and Europe, the incoming right-wing government of President Sebastian Pinera is looking to crack down.

In Peru, Francis will also visit Trujillo and the northern areas hard hit by floods and mudslides last March in the worst environmental calamity to strike Peru in nearly two decades. The El Nino storms killed more than 100 people and destroyed bridges, infrastructure and homes in hundreds of villages in an already poor area.

Peru’s president estimates it will take $9 billion for the country to rebuild within five years. ___

CHILE’S SEX ABUSE SCANDAL

Chile’s church has yet to recover its credibility following the scandal over the Rev. Fernando Karadima, a charismatic preacher who had a huge following in Santiago and was responsible for training hundreds of priests and five bishops.

The Vatican in 2011 sentenced Karadima to a lifetime of “penance and prayer” after confirming what his victims had been saying for years but what Chile’s Catholic leadership refused to believe: that Karadima had sexually abused them.

Francis reopened the wounds of the scandal when in 2015 he named one of Karadima’s proteges as bishop of the southern diocese of Osorno. Karadima’s victims say Bishop Juan Barros knew about the abuse but did nothing, a charge Barros denies.

Osorno dissidents are planning protests in Santiago to coincide with Francis’ arrival Monday. ___

POLITICS AND CORRUPTION IN PERU

Francis frequently rails against corruption, calling it more insidious than sin and a plague that harms the poorest the most.

But if he utters the word “corruption” in Peru, it will have particular significance. Last month, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski narrowly avoided impeachment after an investigative committee revealed documents showing the Brazilian construction giant responsible for Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal, Odebrecht, made $782,000 in payments to Kuczynski’s private consulting firm more than a decade ago when he was a minister.

The former CEO of Odebrecht has admitted that company executives paid bribes and campaign contributions to secure public works contracts around the continent.

Soon after he survived the impeachment vote, Kuczynski set off protests by pardoning jailed former President Alberto Fujimori. Many Peruvians believe the pardon was done to secure support during the impeachment vote from a political party led by Fujimori’s son. ___

THE POPE AND THE AMAZON

When Francis flies deep into the Peruvian rainforest to meet with indigenous peoples at the end of his trip, he’ll be symbolically opening a major church meeting on the Amazon that is scheduled to start in October 2019.

Francis has called the Synod on the Amazon to bring bishops and cardinals from around the world to the Vatican to propose new ways to minister to Amazonian people and care for the “lung” of the Earth.

The area around Puerto Maldonado, at the confluence of two rivers on Peru’s southern border with Bolivia, has the greatest biodiversity in Peru’s Amazon, but is also home to a logging and gold-mining industry.

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praise Be,” the pope railed against the exploitation of the world’s natural resources by wealthy multinationals at the expense of the poor and indigenous peoples who need those resources to survive.

The archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, said he expected the pope might speak out about the use of child labor in Peru’s gold mines, the largest in South America, particularly when he visits a home for exploited children. Just last week Francis urged governments to prioritize the elimination of child labor “in all its forms.”

By NICOLE WINFIELD by Associated Press, published on STL.NEWS by St. Louis Media, LLC (US)

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MTV IDOL from Polynoid on Vimeo.

Stills, concept art, styleframes and more at: polynoid.tv/mtv-idol

Year:2013

Client: VIMN MTV Milano Design Studio Lead Creative Direction: VIMN MTV Milano Design Studio Creative Director: Lorenzo Banal Art Director: Luca Dusio Senior Producer/On Air Manager: Maria Cristina Cipriani

Production Company / Animation Studio: Woodblock Direction: Polynoid

Artists: Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck, Tom Weber, Fabian Pross, Csaba Letay, Marco Kowalik, Sebastian Kowalski, Sebastian Faber, Jakob Schulze Rohr, Max Stoehr, Ivan Vasiljevic, William Tirloy, Pascal Floerks, Falko Paeper, Eric Mootz

Music/Sounddesign: Michael Fakesch (michaelfakesch.com)