Sterling Proffer

This is the publishing paradox nowadays: opportunities come to you in direct proportion to your ability to operate without them.

"The one unforgivable sin is to be boring."

The civic fathers who presided over the industrial cities of the late nineteenth and early and middle twentieth centuries—the Rockefellers and Carnegies who built the museums and libraries and concert halls—supported culture as an end in itself: a public good, a social value, a point of local and national pride. Today’s planners and plutocrats... See more