I don't know how I worked in publishing for as long as I did.

Brutal day for my colleagues in Los Angeles. Sending all of them strength, and thanking Boris Kachka for fighting the good fight. His unwavering support of books and authors and publishers has made LA a literary town once again.

And yeah, the Oscar for worst performance goes to the Los Angeles Times.

Never a good thing to wake up to a headline with "journalism" and "extinction" in it. OK, back to TikTok.

Next on Before The Cheering Started. Acclaimed novelist Lea Carpenter on mag pub life, her father and path to writing about espionage. ⁦Alfred A. Knopf⁩ ⁦Paul Bogaards⁩ ⁦GeminiXIII⁩ ep drops weds Feb 7.

THE CULLING, PART TWO, by Paul Bogaards open.substack.com/pub/paulbogaar…

And then there were none (I mean, they are running out of people to fire over there).

The cabin porch is an ideal place to observe the machinations of trade publishing playing out.

"The spider, nimble in its web, waited for the unwary fly." - E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

Nimble!

“’Thirty years, and it’s never leaked,’” Caro says. This particular shed was a floor sample, bought because he wanted it right away…'I said the following thing, always magic with people who work: ‘I can’t lose the days.’ She comes back and says, ‘You can have it tomorrow.’”

This morning’s public service announcement: Robert Caro’s The Power Broker is finally an eBook. You’re welcome. PS: The download takes seven days. nytimes.com/2024/09/12/boo…

Let the dead rest.

By the time they finish all the road construction projects in #btv, everyone will have left the city and every downtown business will be bankrupt. But you know what? THEY'RE STILL ISSUING PARKING TICKETS! Fucking morons. #burlingtonvt