Celebrities, executives, participants in timely news stories, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, memoirs, magazine articles, or other written material. "A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are officially credited to another person as the author. That seems like a good idea.Īssistant Village Readering - Google. Some have suggested writing an outline on paper. Bear in mind that I am not as good a writer as Obama. Decades later, I found that writing was a lot easier for me on a PC, and lost my aversion to writing. I developed an aversion to writing in high school, courtesy of greatly disliking the Junior Literary Critic method used to teach composition. the act of typing it into the computer essentially becomes a first edit. "Because he thinks the computer can lend 'half-baked thoughts the mask of tidiness,' he writes his first drafts longhand on yellow legal pads."". Something about going to Bali to get Dreams into shape, and not having a good time of it. The story I heard about _Dreams From My Father_ is that he took an advance, was running up a hard deadline, couldn't get it together, so he took all of his scatter-shot notes to Bill Ayres, who actually can write to order. Whether Bill Ayers wrote the book, though, is a lot more questionable. It does look like somebody touched that up, maybe a lot. The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn't work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle. It was an uninviting block, treeless and barren, lined with soot-colored walk-ups that cast heavy shadows for most of the day. I was living in New York at the time, on Ninety-fourth between Second and First, part of that unnamed, shifting border between East Harlem and the rest of Manhattan. It's not that great.Ī FEW MONTHS AFTER MY twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news. At the Commander in Chief’s Ball, we split up to dance with two charming and understandably nervous young members of our armed forces.Ĭ'mon, it's not hard to suppose that he came up with most of that - maybe all of it by himself. Michelle was a chocolate-brown vision in her flowing white gown, and at our first stop I took her in my arms and spun her around and whispered silly things in her ear as we danced to a sublime rendition of “At Last” sung by Beyoncé. Michelle and I attended a total of 10 inaugural balls that evening. Two, look at a sample of the latest book: Peter Bruegel “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent”įor more Ursus Wehlri, stay tuned for Part 2, where we’ll be showing more of his work with everyday items in, Ursus Wehlri – The Art of Tidying Up.One, hardly anybody in public life writes a whole book without help, and that includes Obama. Georges Seurat “Les Poseuses” (Pointillism) Let’s take a look at Ursus Wehrli’s Tidying Up of some of the most famous artworks in the world. a pond of goldfish gets transformed into a tray of golden fish fingers or Van Gogh’s Sunflowers gets transformed into into a bottle of sunflower oil.Ībove all, Wehlri’s works invite the viewer to join in on the fun of looking and engaging with art work on a different level, one that is accessible to everyone. Though he made his name through rearranging famous artworks, Wehlri’s diverse subject matter also includes scenes from everyday life, with occasional dips into dark humor, e.g. Whether his intention is humor or plain old absurdity, he is masterful at turning tidiness and organization into a whole new form of art and self expression. 1969) gained fame in the wake of his two bestselling books Tidying Up Art and Tidying Up More Art, in which he deconstructs scenes from famous paintings and reorganizes them according to size, color or shape.
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