Word: mcgrath
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...novelist, and a very fine one, Patrick McGrath has specialized in the modern Gothic, books in which madmen of one kind or another work their wiles. But his superb and unwholesome new novel, Port Mungo (Knopf; 242 pages), is not about anything so simple as abnormal psychology. It's about the brutal impulses available to anyone, especially artists, who would let slip the loose restraints of civilization...
...last third of the book is an emotional plunge into a place that the temperate, fastidious Gin is in no way equipped to comprehend. "There are no mysteries," she tries insisting, "only people who conceal, only secrets." In fact, there is no end of mysteries. In his shimmering way, McGrath pulls back the curtain on a terrible one and says, "Look." When he brings you to that place so adroitly, who can say no? --By Richard Lacayo
...McGrath Studios’ yearly payment of $21,000 (1400 students at $15 each) to HYP is well worth it, because Harvard students buy roughly $70,000 worth of prints each year. The cheapest package is $39.95 and some students spend up to $400. Bob McGrath said 50 percent of students place an order, which is very high compared to other colleges, where he said 25 percent of students typically place orders. At Harvard, the average order is worth roughly $100. This means that McGrath can expect an average return of $50 in sales per photo shoot (since he gets...
Considering how lucrative the senior portrait business is, HYP’s business managers should be able to get higher “rebates.” Yearbook Editor-in-Chief My Dzi Le ‘05 said they switched to McGrath last year because the studio offered to catalogue the photos digitally and send them all to the publisher. But this change was made without a competitive bidding process...
...studios to bid their rebate up to $20 per student, there would be no need to raise the book price. McGrath said his payments to HYP are top-level, but he did not indicate that they are the highest of any college he works with. Raising the rebate to $20 per student would net an additional $7,000—or $7,500 if the number of photo sittings rose...