(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

As I've mentioned here before, I believe these days to be an ironically golden time for publishing, "ironic" of course because by all traditional means of measurement, the industry seems to be in a real crisis right now; but really, once you get past the shock of a bunch of now- More...