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One of the media transformations I expect to take place over the next 10 years, if not sooner, is that book publishing will become more blog-like — that is, micropublishing, the interest of the New York houses in putting out blockbusters, and the decline of the industry (and its retail counterpart) generally will lead to [...]
Mother Jones has an essay up by the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review on the death of the literary journal. I agree with Ted Genoways on this much at least: [T]he less commercially viable fiction became, the less it seemed to concern itself with its audience, which in turn made it less commercial, until, [...]
M.E. Bradford on John Dickinson’s Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania: The manner of Dickinson’s twelve letters is well suited to their matter. In form they belong to the “high” or “sober” tradition of English political pamphleteering — as does Common Sense to its “rough and ready” but popular counterpart. In the one company we [...]
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