I used to write theater reviews, and I was doing a Google search not long ago on the name I used when, lo and behold, I found that I was in a footnote in a book on theater — specifically Portrayals of Americans on the World Stage, by
I can’t tell you how tickled I was to be footnoted. I had no idea that anyone had wanted to use that review. I have been equally excited and surprised the few times I got an acknowledgment (for doing not much) in friends’ books: Unseen Warhol, Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer, and Pen Pal. What a thrill!
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I can completely relate! I worked in academe and never got over the thrill of having my work cited by others. I still occasionally do a “vanity search” on Google, just to see where my work is turning up!
I will search on you, too. I have your real name in an e-mail from when I bought Valentine chocolates at etsy.
congratulations on the recognition. However you have been recognized and loved by many regular folks like us who follow your blog and look forward to be with you in your mind travel. Your genius in taking us on many different cultural voyages and bringing us the rainbow of artistic exhibits that we may have missed during our busy life is appreciated by your fans. Keep on forward.
What a lovely comment, Assem! I appreciate it so much. (And congratulations to you today on a new voyage with your newest precious family member!)
I happen to know that you did more than “not much.” And how did I not know that our lovely Francesca had written a book! It’s always thrilling to be credited and I, too, got a credit of “Unseen Warhol,” we had so many talented colleagues in that very strange, Alice in Wonderland-ish workplace.
Wonderland is right. I seem to recall looking up and copying at HBR that conversation between Alice and Humpty Dumpty in which he defines words to mean whatever he wants, concluding, “There’s glory for you!!” PS Do read Pen Pal. It’s great.