He also produced other books on Tchaikovsky and on the composers Modest Mussorgsky and Mikhail Glinka, was editor of the New Grove Russian Masters series of composer biographies, and served on the editorial committee of Musica Britannica, the national collection of British music.
Frank Kermode first came into my life many years ago as a distant presence — as general editor of the Fontana Modern Masters series: ideal material for an autodidact like me.
Written by international tattoo journalist and current editor of Tattoo Master, Trent Aithen-Smith, the book traces the cultural and historical implications of some of body art's most-recognized symbols.
In the words of Geoffrey Crowther, our editor from 1938 to 1956, anonymity keeps the editor "not the master but the servant of something far greater than himself…it gives to the paper an astonishing momentum of thought and principle".
The wise move would have been to invest in public transportation, to build up the city's justly famous but sparse metro network and bring back the trams that killed the literary editor at the start of "The Master and Margarita"; instead, Luzhkov has been cool toward the metro and actively hostile to the trams.
He attended public schools there and graduated in 1947 from the University of Chicago, where he was editor of the newspaper and earned a master's degree in political science in 1951.
"I went through a phase of just calling him Eric, even to people who didn't know who that was," said the master wordsmith Ann Kjellberg, 50, editor of the journal Little Star and the literary executor of the poet Joseph Brodsky.
He is now engaged to Caitlin Masters, the editor of "The Examiner," Natchez' most influential newspaper.
Maureen E. Walthers, editor of the Ridgewood Times Newsweekly, called Mr. Maltese a master of "bringing home the bacon".
The annual honors are meant to make people "laugh and then think," says Marc Abrahams, the Ig Nobel master of ceremonies and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research.
Editor's note: Guest author Tim Wu is a profesor at Columbia Law School and most recently author of The Master Switch: The Rise And Fall Of Information Empires.
