How has it come to be that all sorts of people —like, say, Madonna— are now rushing into the places formerly reserved for outsiders, bookworms, romantics, and losers like Jozef Imrich?
What sells these days is humiliation and being the butt of all jokes (smile)

Thank You For Not Reading
We’re now in a literary landscape…densely populated with publishers, editors, agents, distributors, brokers, publicity specialists, bookstore chains, ‘marketing people,’ television cameras, [and] photographers.” What that means, she warns, is this: “The writer and his reader—the most important links in the chain—are more isolated than ever.
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