On a recent visit to New York, I did a reading, and a lot of the chatter was about how something seems to be wrong in the literary star-making machine. Publicists keep pulling the usual levers and nothing seems to be happening. Journals ignore their publicity requests. Or if the articles get written, they don’t get shared. The books come out, and nobody talks about them. For instance, Taffy Brodesser-Akner has a new book out. I’m sure it’s excellent—nobody is talking about it.
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