One woman, recently laid off in publishing, is embarking on a series of unpaid internships at prestigious New York restaurants.
This disparity is shocking, and the goal of promoting equality for writers of color in literary publishing is too pressing to put off until (white) women have achieved full parity.
Again, this drastic change in publishing is a long way off – perhaps six months – but the inexorable signature of progress is writ large on the face of this new Nook.
STEPHANIE VANDERSLICE: Old-school creative writing may have operated more like a guild system, but with the advent of Web 2.0 and the flattening of the publishing world, all bets are off.
Self-publishing is obviously taking off, but statistics on new titles are almost impossible to come by because so many books counted as part of "nontraditional" publishing include reprints of old books now in the public domain.
And now, in 2018, the economics of online publishing are running everyone off the map.
You'll see that the "Publish activity to Facebook Timeline" option is off.
After holding a series of jobs in programming, training and technical publishing, she was laid off in 1985 as she was nearing 61 and could not find another job in the industry.
The publishing chain is being spun off as a separately traded public company by Chicago-based Tribune Co., which plans to retain ownership of its TV stations and other properties.
A book generally makes the bulk of its money in its first year in print, but one that Mr. Shepard published 23 years ago is really paying off only now: "The Hoax," Clifford Irving's account of his faking an autobiography of Howard Hughes, is being made into a movie.
