false 862912 2 <b>Book Description</b>: The sky is NOT caving in on American letters. Far from it. The immensely talented writers in this collection all came of age professionally in the last decade--and all chose reading and writing over another more lucrative and decidedly flashier pursuits. They became producers and consumers of the written word at the most media-saturated time in history, a time when books face greater cultural competition than ever before. Why? How did they come to writing as a calling? What's the relevance of literature when the very term seems quaint? <i>Bookmark Now</i> answers these questions--and many more you probably never thought to ask. Like: What to do when your rabid fans start writing fiction about you? Why don't you have to choose between John Updike and <I>Grand Theft Auto</I>? And, can you really get paid for it?<p> <p> <p> The end result is not only a voyeuristic peek into the creative lives of today's writers, but a timely glimpse into a changing book business. Storytelling, it will become clear-as a means of self-realization, community building, or simply putting one's point across-is NOW more relevant than ever before. 848339 24 5 2005 Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times total:78|5:15|4:26|3:30|2:6|1:1| 78 282 143 16 2 9 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 07:21:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 07:42:31 -0800 2008
Hmmm. What's the appropriate response to such an enormous bolus of self-absorbed whining? How about "Cry me a f**ing river!".

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