Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Wanna Get Published and Praised?

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Posted by ccwbass (Member # 1850) on :

Write crappy books. From Steve Erlinger, culture editor of the New York Times:

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To be honest, there's so much s**t. Most of the things we praise aren't very good.

Thank goodness science fiction is not dependent on the graces of the editors of the New York Times Review, otherwise you'd have to follow this formula:

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So there's the recipe: Emphasize non-fiction books. Demote literary fiction. Promote (judiciously) commercial novels. Cover the book industry more and individual titles less (Keller says he intends to fill the long-empty book publishing industry slot in business, which -- as with other media beats -- requires "a thick skin to stand up to the spin and the whining.")

Read the whole thing, as they say, at:

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=Steven+Erlanger+praise/v=2/SID=w/l=WS1/R=3/H=0/*-http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=59576

Posted by wetwilly (Member # 1818) on :

nice to know our art is still being kept pure and untainted, huh ccw?

Posted by ccwbass (Member # 1850) on :

The New York Times is as good a weather vane as any: Whatever they deem not worthy of reading is probably worth reading, and vice versa.