Life in the publishing industry...

[fjtorres]

...in the *good* old days.
From an upcoming book by Daniel Menaker:
http://www.vulture.com/2013/11/danie...-insanity.html

...the numerous prizes “my” authors win look to me like the work of an ironic deity—Elizabeth Strout wins the Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge, Colum McCann the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, and Siddhartha Mukherjee the Pulitzer in nonfiction for his book about cancer. In the meantime, I keep wondering if there are other, more personal factors at work in my being let go, but in the end, in such situations, it doesn’t matter, does it? When it comes to corporate life, especially at its higher altitudes, factors of all kinds tend to get tangled up with each other. And it’s impossible to untangle them, and pointless, and fruitless, to try.


Excerpted from My Mistake: A Memoir, *published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. © 2013 by Daniel Menaker.

[speakingtohe]

Well that was interesting. An exposé of the publishing industry

Helen

[kennyc]

Damn corporations anyway.