“...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have… — Elizabeth Funderbirk Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Screenwriter Flacco nicely evokes the aftermath of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake in his fiction debut, a novel of suspense. — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
I was really happy with Mike [Green]. Not only was he contributing offensively, but he was really making good plays, good decisions.… — Barry Trotz Copy Share Image
I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of… — David First Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
In her whimsical debut author Brynne Barnes celebrates the colors of our world. — E. B. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that… — Phil Cornwell Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find… — Tony Ardizzone Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope. — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face. — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both. — John Roecker Copy Share Image