Thank you Bill! Very happy to have you here! Sinykin seems like a symptom of a problem that I suspected was there - but I didn't realize the full extent of it. It's old-style cultural materialism but in the service of celebrating capital. What is useful about a book like his is that he seems to dig under the hood of the publishing compan…
Thank you Bill! Very happy to have you here! Sinykin seems like a symptom of a problem that I suspected was there - but I didn't realize the full extent of it. It's old-style cultural materialism but in the service of celebrating capital. What is useful about a book like his is that he seems to dig under the hood of the publishing companies and show what their thought process is - and it's the kind of thing that should make every writer run (especially when paired with the sort of glibly triumphalist narrative that Sinykin espouses).
Thank you Bill! Very happy to have you here! Sinykin seems like a symptom of a problem that I suspected was there - but I didn't realize the full extent of it. It's old-style cultural materialism but in the service of celebrating capital. What is useful about a book like his is that he seems to dig under the hood of the publishing companies and show what their thought process is - and it's the kind of thing that should make every writer run (especially when paired with the sort of glibly triumphalist narrative that Sinykin espouses).