TCWD Podcast: Publishing Books is a Mistake
Hay festival meltdown, the Philly Free Library fiasco, and other writer agonies
I turned in my final draft of my next book What is Wrong with Men, to be published by Pantheon in 2025. The inevitable question to follow news like that: Why bother?
Amazon controls everything, literature is culturally irrelevant outside of the Tiktok subgenres of Dark Academia Dark Romance Dark Fantasy, the industry is still going through corporate consolidation, etc etc. Jessa and Nico get into the terrible state of publishing, and what happens to an industry wholly dependent on the university system when the university system goes into crisis.
Audio below and in the usual podcast places. Show notes and references after the paywall.
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