Publishing Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/publishing/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Publishing Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/publishing/ 32 32 Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina” https://www.publicbooks.org/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-on-catalina/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56956 “I find human behavior fascinating. I find it interesting. I find all of it confusing, every single aspect of it.”

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]]> “I’ve Embraced the Outsider Status”: A Conversation with Francisco Goldman https://www.publicbooks.org/ive-embraced-the-outsider-status-a-conversation-with-francisco-goldman/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55956 “That reality, such suffering, and violence, so much evil, was just shattering. Of course I witnessed so much courage too, and goodness, much of it doomed.”

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]]> The Multiplication of Monsters: Misinformation from Gutenberg to QAnon https://www.publicbooks.org/the-multiplication-of-monsters-from-gutenberg-to-qanon/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55521 Throughout history the introduction of new technologies has increased the circulation and acceptance of rumors and disinformation.

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]]> Life inside the Fiction Factory: Dan Sinykin on Conglomerate Publishing https://www.publicbooks.org/life-inside-the-fiction-factory-dan-sinykin-on-conglomerate-publishing/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54853 “An author’s photo is more appealing to the consumer than the publisher’s colophon.”

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]]> Toward the Next Literary Mafia https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-next-literary-mafia/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53895 Those excluded from the publishing industry can ultimately overwhelm its bigotry—if they all work together.

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]]> What 35 Years of Data Can Tell Us about Who Will Win the National Book Award https://www.publicbooks.org/what-35-years-of-data-can-tell-us-about-who-will-win-the-national-book-award/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54161 We may never know what goes on in the rooms where literary prizes are decided, but thanks to data, we know exactly who was there.

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]]> The Frankfurt Book Fair and Its Cupboards https://www.publicbooks.org/the-frankfurt-book-fair-and-its-cupboards/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53820 “In order to understand the multi-dimensionality of the global book industry, we urgently need to move beyond standard methods alone.”

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]]> Publishers and Scholars, Unite! https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53546 Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

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]]> “Gestures of Refusal”: A Conversation with Sarah Bernstein and Daisy Lafarge https://www.publicbooks.org/gestures-of-refusal-a-conversation-with-sarah-bernstein-and-daisy-lafarge/ Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53417 “Why do we want our characters to be innocent, as if we are innocent ourselves?”

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]]> Fool’s Gold https://www.publicbooks.org/fools-gold/ Fri, 12 May 2023 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52341 In the blurb-saturated present, authors can decry blurbs as corrupt and silly all they like. When they publish new books, however, they will be conscripted to marketing duties, obliged to solicit blurbs, and most will provide glowing snippets to hype their friends and colleagues too.

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