On Friday night I was checking my email and exclaimed, "What?" when I saw this in my daily email from Publishers Marketplace:
NYT art critic Benjamin Genocchio's THE CUPCAKE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND THE CREATION OF THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, a behind-the-scenes account of how the architect Frank Lloyd Wright staked his reputation on a radically creative vision for New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and waged innumerable battles over seventeen years to complete the museum on his own terms, in the process reinventing the idea of the museum itself, to Paul Golob at Times Books, by David Forrer of Inkwell Management (world).
Why was a book about the Guggenheim Museum called The Cupcake? Now I know, via History.com:
On this day in 1959, on New York City's Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world's top collections of contemporary art.
Do you agree with the cupcake assessment?
photo by Flickr user ex novo
But today there was another cupcake-themed book deal:
I HEART YOU, YOU HAUNT ME author Lisa Schroeder's IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES, about a 12-year-old who longs to travel and see the world, but is stuck in Willow, Oregon trying to help her mother get a cupcake shop off the ground, to Alyson Heller at Aladdin, by Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger (world).
NYT art critic Benjamin Genocchio's THE CUPCAKE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND THE CREATION OF THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, a behind-the-scenes account of how the architect Frank Lloyd Wright staked his reputation on a radically creative vision for New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and waged innumerable battles over seventeen years to complete the museum on his own terms, in the process reinventing the idea of the museum itself, to Paul Golob at Times Books, by David Forrer of Inkwell Management (world).
Why was a book about the Guggenheim Museum called The Cupcake? Now I know, via History.com:
On this day in 1959, on New York City's Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world's top collections of contemporary art.
Do you agree with the cupcake assessment?
photo by Flickr user ex novo
But today there was another cupcake-themed book deal:
I HEART YOU, YOU HAUNT ME author Lisa Schroeder's IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES, about a 12-year-old who longs to travel and see the world, but is stuck in Willow, Oregon trying to help her mother get a cupcake shop off the ground, to Alyson Heller at Aladdin, by Sara Crowe at Harvey Klinger (world).
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