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Join a literary insider for a behind-the-scenes tour of art heists, opera icons, and the golden age of publishing.
From the author of Scribners: 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 to his "dual professions" on parallel tracks—book publishing and art history.
Behind-the-scenes stories of famous Scribner authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe give way to the section on Scribner's forte, the art of the Baroque masters: a murderous Caravaggio and the two tycoons Rubens and Bernini.
From his role in a sting operation to recover a stolen Rubens painting on Miami Beach to his personal profiles of three luminous sopranos—Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Frederica von Stade, and Mary Costa—Scribner shares a fascinating peek into the life and loves of a Renaissance man.
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
