In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office.
Written in gripping and lively prose, this deeply original book recasts the past six decades of American fiction..
Doctorow, Judith Krantz, Renata Adler, Stephen King, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Palahniuk, Patrick O\'Brian, and Walter Mosley--as well as vivid portraits of Industry figures.
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Big Fiction features dazzling readings of a vast range of novelists--including E.
He emphasizes how women and people of color navigated shifts in publishing, arguing that writers such as Toni Morrison allegorized their experiences in their fiction.
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Sinykin examines four different sectors of the Publishing industry: mass-market books by brand-name authors like Danielle Steel; trade publishers that encouraged genre elements in literary fiction; nonprofits such as Graywolf that aspired to protect Literature from market pressures; and the distinctive niche of employee-owned W.
Giving an inside look at the industry\'s daily routines, personal dramas, and institutional crises, he reveals how Conglomeration has shaped what kinds of books and writers are published.
Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the Publishing Industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.
As multinational conglomerates consolidated the industry, the business of literature--and Literature itself--transformed.
The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other large corporations purchased other formerly independent publishers.
By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements.
In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office
