Author: Lisa Fluet

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. –E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910) [1] Funny business, a woman’s career. –Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve (1950) [2] A post-Grammys “Music Issue” of The New York Times Magazine (March 10, 2019) offers an ambitious guide to the present, with “The 25 Songs That Matter Right Now.” Wesley Morris’ apologia for Lady Gaga’s “Why Did You Do That?”, from...