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Vanity Fair's How A Book Is Born: The Making Of The Art Of Fielding (2011)

by Keith Gessen(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Nonfiction

publisher

Vanity Fair

review 1: This short book grew out of a long Vanity Fair article detailing the publishing journey of Chad Harbaugh's "The Art of Fielding." I would not even have known about it had not the Little,Brown editor sitting next to me gushed all over herself when she saw my husband holding the novel as we stood to depart a flight in New York last summer. Neither he nor I shared the acclaim that the novel found in publishing circles or among other readers whom we respect, so I'd hoped this article might cast on light on what we were missing. It doesn't. Instead, in addition to interesting insights into the world of international conglomerates that control today's book world (which I found quite depressing), it was primarily an infomercial for Gessen and his literary fri... moreends.
review 2: As an author and a bookseller I found this fascinating. I had just finished reading the novel and had gone online to read some reviews which is where I found a reference to this e-book. I think with a debut novelist trying to sell a book, the difficult thing is to get your book into the right publisher or agent's 's hands (i.e. one can see the potential) at the right point in time. Luckily for Chad Harbach that came together and his book slowly gathered enormous momentum. less

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