kurt vonnegut

Any publisher worth its salt will tell you that the real money in the business doesn't come from the current bestsellers by Stephanie Meyer and James Patterson, but the backlist: that deep catalog of books that were published years ago. Titles like J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye...

Most of the time, I tend to view advertising with the same level of appreciation that I reserve for bacteria, intestinal parasites, and Jessica Simpson. All four things are annoying, constant, and inescapable. Admittedly, they may be beneficial at times; after all, bacteria is responsible for the...