Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell
Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?
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Publishers are turning away from personal stories. Have readers stopped caring about each other’s lives?
Read MoreWriters and readers alike love to argue about the quotations in the opening pages of their favourite books
Read MoreThe joy of reading memoir is to watch another mind puzzle through its inner mechanics. If the outcome is already decided, why bother?
Read MoreThe publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes
Read MoreHere artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes
Read MoreAs sales slump, the labour of trying to bottle hype is largely left to writers
Read MoreI don’t want to be told what’s going to happen and I definitely don’t want to be told what the book is “about”
Read MoreOutlets like USA Today are hiring beat reporters to write exclusively about Swift and Beyoncé. But investing in this kind of journalism distracts from stories people actually need
Read MoreThe move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada
Read MoreIt’s not entirely clear who it’s for and what its function should be in a rapidly changing literary ecosystem
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