How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various conditions—including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition—affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read.Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears—and disappears—in contemporary American culture.

Product Description: Assembling the personal collection that became The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832 1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West...read more

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Product Description: The most complete single-volume book-industry reference is now available in an updated 4th edition. This Business of Books is an indispensable tool for aspiring authors, teachers and industry professionals. Frank, reality-based and reader-friendly, it explains what every author needs to know about: - Concept, Writing, Editing, Submissions, Publishing, Distribution, Marketing, Promotion & Sales - Editorial-service providers - Publishing contracts - The 5-step process for creating a book - When a plot isn't a plot - Pros & cons of subsidy & self-publishing - Editing do's & don'ts ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Follows a book through the various stages of publishing, printing, and marketing

Gathers essays and articles about the paperback publishing industry, looks at how it has changed over the past twenty-three years and discusses trends, publishers, and authors

Essays examine the current trends in reading and discuss the impact of modern society and technology on publishing, literature, and education

From a vantage of forty years, the author levels a cold eye at trade publishing, providing an insider's view of the glories and defeats of this most influential industry