Hints and tips:
...Maupin himself, in what I think is a self-referential moment, has Michael reflect on his joy that Anna came with him....
...Featuring Mary Barra, chief executive of GM, by the FT’s Rana Foroohar, and author Barbara Kingsolver by fellow writer Ann Patchett. One more thing . . ....
...Ann Patchett once told an interviewer that she has been writing the same book all her life....
...His face is strung in the near-perpetual smile of someone who finds joy in their work and cannot quite fathom how others persist without it....
...It’s joy.” My favourite takeaway: “Success doesn’t lead to feeling good. Feeling good leads to success.”...
...Her joy in the task is evident. Remaining on the ecommerce periphery has added to the shop’s cult status....
...I do attribute it to the flexible working arrangements,” says Kelly Ann Doherty, the group’s chief administrative officer....
...19 2025; further information and tickets here Performance Beethoven’s Ninth, Royal Albert Hall Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 (aka the Emperor concerto) and Symphony No 9, with its climactic “Ode to Joy...
...The renowned biodynamic winemaker Julie-Ann Hoch was working in her vineyard in Kremstal, Austria, when she hit upon the idea for Pure Joy Botanicals....
...For Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, two-time Olympic 100m champion, her son Zyon’s school sports day figured to be just another one at the office....
...Now 40 years old, the play has lost little of its dizzy joy or deep poignancy....
...Ann Russell is one of the trend’s rising stars....
...It’s “the most shocking conclusion Our American Cousin will ever have,” the novelist Karen Joy Fowler observes semi-tartly....
...That pensive joy expresses an ambition he had yet to realise: painting as a kind of sublime therapy....
...She has an incredible smile and sense of humour: I saw a joy there that transcended all of the projections. I grew up witnessing her excellence and magnificence from afar....
...Iriguchi’s focus is on choice and joy, not danger and death....
...“The essence of movie theatres is sharing joy and anger. Losing that will be dangerous.”...
...Patchett posting messages on social media about the joys of literature browsing....
...Next on my list is Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, about a pair of siblings over the course of half a century who live in the shadow of their childhood home....
...And after the pandemic, it’s glorious to see a stage pulsating with life: a cast of 31 in full voice in the ensemble numbers and spinning across the stage in Ann Yee’s witty, dynamic choreography....
...The book is so devoid of joy that I found myself startled by an exclamation mark, when friends wish the narrator “good luck!” as she agrees to take up a fellowship abroad....
...“As soon as my all-female team started back in the studio, the joy of dressing-up started to creep back in,” she says. “We wanted to look hot, to feel good again.”...
...Saville’s chapter takes the form of an interview with writer and creative director Jo-Ann Furniss and discusses Paris, high art vs pop culture and Saville’s beginnings as a founding partner at Factory Records...
...Countless stories have been written in the past few years outlining how to cancel plans without seeming rude or extolling the joys of ditching in favour of Netflix....
...“We are doing incredibly well out of this crisis, but I'm not exactly jumping for joy,” said Raiko Spörck, managing director. “People are dying, and no one's happy.”...
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