MrT wrote, "I don't think academics have the foggiest idea of
how good books come to be written. Neither do writers, in my
experience. As to value, I don't think all books are equally
good; in fact, most books suck."
A few years back on C-Span's Books, the weekend show, I
watched Judith Regan, the publisher of strange and curious
non-books, talk about big city publishers. She said, and I
wrote it down, "If we knew what sold, there'd be a lot less
books published." Now, William Goldman famously said about
movie-making, "Nobody knows anything." Neither do publishers.
Apparently Regan was just fired by HarperCollins -- in this
month of December! -- over her OJ Simpson publishing
deal.
Fred Zackel Cocaine & Blue Eyes c/o Point Blank
Press
The Greek term "gnostokoi" can be translated as "those who
understand divine matters, knowing what the gods know."
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