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Things I read—stuff I liked.

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Kathleen Schmidt
Oct 27, 2024
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I hope you are enjoying the weekend! As you know, I am back in grad school, so I have two papers to write today. I’m halfway through Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk, which I love so far (I’m reading it for my current class). That’s the thing about assigned reading I always loved: the opportunity to read something I otherwise wouldn’t have read.

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Things I Read:

This piece in Lit Hub about the rise of print-on-demand books is troubling but unsurprising. POD means publishers print a book as orders come in rather than an entire print run. It can also provide a quick solution to replenishing stock.

I was quoted in this Esquire piece about the political book machine. True story: I have worked on books during election cycles since 1996. God, I am old.

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