Hints and tips:
...Isabel BerwickI’m joined by my colleague Andrew Hill, the FT senior business writer, and Frederick Studemann, literary editor....
...“I was getting all these calls from reporters asking if I’d be splitting my time between Harvard and Austin and I was, like, no, this is one of about 50 advisory boards that I’m on,” he says....
...Which was the odd one out: a) salary b) working conditions c) supervision or d) meaningful work?...
...I’m now more eager to broaden my search....
...“I’d never been to the US before,” they say, of that initial journey west, “but even as a kid I wanted to see the world....
...“I’m absolutely stunned,” Bertozzi said after the academy called her with the news....
...Frederick Studemann Wow. Lilah Raptopoulos I’m in. Laura and Fred, this was so fun. I now have a long list as usual. And yeah, thanks for coming. Please come again soon....
...Frederick said he was trying “extremely hard” to find the money but couldn’t unlock it because he’d handed control of the business empire to his three nephews — and a “war between the two sides of the family...
...I’m not sure I could’ve written Half of a Yellow Sun if I’d experienced the Nigerian Biafran war. I think I have the distance, not just of time, but of not having directly experienced the war....
...In the 1970s the architect Frederick Gibberd got the chance to build a city block in London on the Strand, opposite Bush House and dropping to Embankment....
...But I’m content with it.” He hopes that it “makes it evident that something is wrong, something is going on here”....
...We are meeting at Voltaire’s wonderful château in Ferney, which he bought after falling out with Frederick the Great and finding his works banned in Geneva....
...’m in a constant state of pantry envy....
...I’d like any of her paintings; I adore her work. We also share a birthday – 22 September – so I feel a connection to her spirit....
...I’d rather do that than repeating myself, I guess. Shirin Neshat is the recipient of Photo London’s Master of Photography award this year....
...Designed by Central Park creators, architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the greenspace is known to many as Brooklyn’s Backyard....
...We also note that neither Sir Frederick nor Amanda Barclay [Sir Frederick’s daughter] have any relevant legal interest which would allow them to disrupt the sale.”...
...I’m not in the camp that wants to see these monuments destroyed, however. I’d rather see them moved off public grounds and put some place where they can be used for study or teaching....
...He was with Tony Blair in his constituency home in Sedgefield, north-east England, when the New Labour leader learnt that he’d won the battle to be prime minister....
...Frederick Studemann FT LITERARY EDITOR It is way too early for a proper account of Covid-19 and its consequences....
...I’m looking forward to the next book: Summer....
...I can just go next door and say ‘Hey, I’m desperate for toilet paper. Here is a five-dollar bill’.”...
...Rana Foroohar FT global business columnist I’d suggest Station Eleven, one of my very favourite books of the last few years....
...See, I’m not a Luddite — I’d just like an entity aside from Facebook to be in charge of our e-wallets....
...This week’s Bad Gay is Frederick the Great. Have any opinions? Ideas? Think I’m doing a terrible job? Let me know @lucywwatson or email longstoryshort@ft.com. Have a great weekend....
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