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Thank You for Not Reading (Paperback)
$13.95 - Save $3.41 (19%) - RRP $17.36 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Thank You for Not Reading"A brilliant, enthralling spread of story-telling and high-velocity reflections . . . Ugresic is a writer to follow. A writer to be cherished." Susan Sontag
Full description- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Published: 01 December 2003
- Format: Paperback 220 pages
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- Categories: Writing & Editing Guides | Literary Essays | Literary Studies: General | Publishing Industry
- ISBN 13: 9781564782984 ISBN 10: 1564782980
- Sales rank: 250,731
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Full description for Thank You for Not Reading
In this collection of acerbic essays, Ugresic dissects the nature of the contemporary book industry, which she argues is so infected with the need to create and promote literature that will appeal to the masses literally to everyone that if Thomas Mann were writing nowadays, his books wouldn't even be published in the U.S. because they're not sexy enough.A playful and biting critique, Ugresic's essays hit on all of the major aspects of publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves.Thanks to cultural influences such as Oprah, The Today Show, and Kelly Ripa, best-seller lists have become just a modern form of socialist realism, a manifestation of a society that generally ignores literature in favor of the next big thing.
