Society can give its young men almost any job and they’ll figure how to do it. They’ll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for.* When writing or publishing […]
Tag: publishing
Shaking up the book business
Here’s a timely slice of publishing history from Michael Korda’s book, Making the List: [Before World War Two] the mass-market paperback business was still in its infancy. The war decade to come would change that. Pocket Books had been founded in the thirties, to sell books at twenty-five cents a copy. These paperbacks were distributed by […]
Editorial wisdom from the Chicago teachers’ strike
Amanda Ripley made this point in her WSJ piece from last Saturday: The all-important issue is not how easy it is to fire the worst teachers; it’s how to elevate the entire craft without going to war with the teachers. In her mind, both sides are crucial to the health of the system. Not unlike […]
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