BLOG TAG: ranson-polizzotti
| Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:50PM | | | | be depressed | | Tags: depression, music, genius, madness, ranson-polizzotti | | |
I hate to advise anyone to be depressed or to wallow, because as a general rule, walling is for the self-indulgent among us and those who go about creating their own drama. So, this post warrants some clarification. I am not suggested that one work or aim for being depressed. This is not a goal to which one strives. But, nonetheless, we often find ourselves due to circumstances in life that are well beyond our control, in a very depressed and listless state, unable to even get up out of bed and wash our glowing locks or brush even our teeth.
First, it's always a good idea to brush your teeth, no matter how... | | | | | | | Monday, April 14, 2008 9:39PM | | | | hay or hey | life in the city | | Tags: writing, life, writer's life, dreaming, sadi ranson-polizzotti, pen america, tant mieux, blog, april, 2008 | | | 
It's still too cold for me to wear one of my wife-of-a-chicken-farmer dresses. That is lost on you, no doubt, for what does the wife of a chicken farmer wear? Probably nothing at all like I imagine myself to be should I run away and start a chicken farm with the man that I love and yet I tell myself one day, one day, I will do this. We will simply take off and go to somewhere in Sicily and start a small no-kill chicken farm where the chickens can run around free-range and we will simply sell the eggs and live a poor but sated life. We will love. We will have time for our writing, our editing, our... | | | | | | | Friday, April 4, 2008 6:05PM | | | | view from the archive | | Tags: documentarian, documentary, being the documentarian, archives, family history, history, photography, sadi ranson-polizzotti, pen american, pen, sadi ranson, heleina, tant mieux, archives, history, writing, writers | | | 
It's hard to capture the moment of any given moment in a single snapshot, and yet this shot, to me, captures everything about my most recent foray to NYC. It was subtle, full of life, soft, scented, productive, proud, energetic yet mild, and always but always with friends both old and new and discovering new things about myself and about them as well. One can hardly say that this was by any means a 'wasted' trip; besides which, no trip is wasted unless you make it so.
Life, like anything (and I realize this is trite) is what you make it. It's like that song by the group "Talk Talk" (remember them?) "Baby... life's what you make it..."... | | | | | | | Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:57PM | | | | the devil naked in the kleig light | | Tags: sadi ranson-polizzotti, anna wintour, vogue, conde-nast, conde-nast publications, sadi ranson, vogue magazine, assistant, rover, conde nast rover, weisberger, devil wears prada, meisel, elgort, photography, fashion, fashion shoots, magazines, international magazines, american vogue | | | As a sometime professor of book editing and writing a very fine graduate program in publishing, I should be so lucky, as I am, to have such thoughtful students who are interested in interning, actively seeking work, volunteering, etc. once the class is over and it is my promise to them, just as someone once gave me a leg up, to help them out as best I can through recommendations, by sending them to publishers and agents that I know well and that perhaps will take my recommendation about this or that student under advisement. This is the hope.
So far, I have become a mentor to two students - asked quite literally to "mentor" and I cannot begin to express what a... | | | | | | | Friday, March 21, 2008 10:42AM | | | | the moment of truth | money, honey | | Tags: television, the moment of truth, reality television, the fourth estate, media, relationships, truth, cultural comment, culture, world cultural mores, sadi ranson-polizzotti, Fox, Fox television, Fox Network, money, game shows, reality game shows, programs, television programs, programme, ranson-polizzotti, moment of truth, lying, honesty, money, cash reward, culture | | | How we wait for it… have waited. The moment of truth - all these years, yet who would have expected it would arrive in the form it has arrived.
Some clever producer has tapped into our desire to hear the public’s desire for the absolute, unbridled truth with a capital T. Not some watered-down friendly version that may not hurt us, but all of the shitty little things that people do to each other and think (for none of us is completely immune, though some lead a double life more than others), The Moment of Truth, a new television program, meets the supply and demand theory.
There is a voyeuristic demand to peer into the lives’... | | | | | | | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:34AM | | | | losing steven florio | | Tags: steven t. florio, steven florio, sadi ranson, sadi ranson-polizzotti, advance publications, the new yorker, gq, esquire, gentleman's quarterly, publishing, ceos, ceo, mentor, friend, dear friend, vogue, american vogue, vogue magazine, united states, new york, manhattan, mentor, mentoring, sarah heleina ranson-polizzotti, oyster bay, conde nast, conde nast publications, death, obit, memories, eulogy, rememberance | | |
 It is a lonely feeling to lose anyone - lovers, friends, family and in any way, however you lose someone is a death. To lose a mentor tho, how does one begin to express what this feels like?
Were it not for Steven T. Florio I would not be in book publishing or publishing in any way. I always knew I would be a writer, but I never for a minute believed I could succeed as a publisher, as an editor, editorial director, acquisitions editor, etc - the myriad jobs I have held so far in my career - and I never thought that I would see to publish my work with some fair measure... | | | | | |
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