From today’s Publishers Lunch:
Bob Miller’s new experimental start-up with HarperCollins took shape quickly after a casual discussion over drinks with Harper ceo Jane Friedman at the end of February. Miller says that he was “feeling restless and didn’t know what next mountain to climb” and was “talking about my frustration with the paradigms in this [...]
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Way back when, Steinbeck was mandatory reading: Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, The Grapes of Wrath — all miserable books, hated by everyone in our class because the novels were so saturated with hopelessness, despair, and outright cruelty. “Oh,” but the teachers said, “it’s about the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.” [...]
