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Old 08-26-2014, 08:33 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
I believe that back in the '30s, the best sellers were genuinely talented authors like Falkner and Hemingway.
Well, yes, but there also was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People AKA a guide to flattery.

Indie writers may like that idea that two years in a row, 1931 and 1932, the number one US fiction bestseller was The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. The imprint on the title page, "The John Day Company," apparently amounted to little more than Buck's husband helping to get her books printed and distributed.

Despite Luffy's pet theory in #29 about Nobel prize winners being poor writers, The Good Earth is truly unforgettable.

Last night I finished Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, which, although nonfiction, feels like an update on what life is like for the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the villagers Buck described so poignantly.
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