Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding [NOOK Book]

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The highly anticipated novel The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach, has just been published. But what is the riveting story behind the story—and what does it take to make a bestseller these days? As author and n+1 co-founder Keith Gessen reveals in this 17,000-word e-book (expanded from the article appearing in the October issue of Vanity Fair), the passage from MFA classroom to national book tour is its own treacherous, absorbing—and wildly unpredictable—adventure. Harbach, Gessen’s friend and colleague, was a ...
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Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding

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Overview

The highly anticipated novel The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach, has just been published. But what is the riveting story behind the story—and what does it take to make a bestseller these days? As author and n+1 co-founder Keith Gessen reveals in this 17,000-word e-book (expanded from the article appearing in the October issue of Vanity Fair), the passage from MFA classroom to national book tour is its own treacherous, absorbing—and wildly unpredictable—adventure. Harbach, Gessen’s friend and colleague, was a struggling writer who toiled relentlessly for ten years on The Art of Fielding, before it eventually hauled in a $650,000 advance. At each step of the way several vivid characters fought tooth and nail to ensure the book’s survival, including Chris Parris-Lamb, Harbach’s passionate young agent; Michael Pietsch, a renowned editor at the publishing house Little, Brown; and Keith Hayes, the book’s tireless designer. In this e-book of sweeping scope and fascinating, behind-the-scenes detail, Gessen pulls back the curtain on the insular, fiercely political, and cutthroat literary world of Manhattan—a place where the “Big Six” publishing houses, owned by multinational conglomerates, reign supreme, while smaller houses are left to fend for themselves. Gessen exposes the modern-day book business for what it is: a largely uncertain enterprise—but rife with courageous, enthusiastic individuals—struggling to redefine itself in the face of its own digital revolution.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940012996008
  • Publisher: Vanity Fair
  • Publication date: 9/6/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 148,648
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author

Keith Gessen is a founding editor of n+1, a magazine of literature, politics, and culture. He is the author of one book of fiction, All the Sad Young Literary Men, as well as the translator of Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl and (with Anna Summers) Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales. He has written about books and culture for The New Yorker and The London Review of Books, and introduced George Orwell's All Art is Propaganda and Mikhail Bulgakov's Black Snow. He is the editor of two books: What We Should Have Known (2007) and Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager (2010). He is currently at work on a book of translations of the Russian poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev (forthcoming from n+1 and Ugly Duckling Presse in 2012).
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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 31, 2012

    Good piece of writing.

    There is a great deal of talent here! Keith--don't forget that you were meant to write fiction, though. If I could read Dostoyevsky in the original...Wow! Toiling and scribbling out here in the SW.....

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2012

    I want the article BUT it can't be read on a Simple Touch Nook!

    I want the article BUT it can't be read on a Simple Touch Nook! The formatting was not changed, so the drop caps are in black and the rest of the text is WHITE FONT (yes, I know I'm shouting, the better to get someone's attention, maybe). And, since the Simple Touch has no white on black option, it's a blank screen, except for the header.

    Don't buy it if you want to read it on your Simple Touch - ePub formatting 101 - FAIL.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 10, 2011

    Should have been left as an article

    As a Vanity Fair article, this was probably a good read. Padded out to a short ebook, it drags.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 13, 2012

    Not able to read UNBELIEVABLE

    An ebook not formated correctly

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  • Posted March 28, 2012

    Can't read on Simple Touch Nook. Purchased last December, cann

    Can't read on Simple Touch Nook.

    Purchased last December, cannot see the text, only occasional drop caps. Tech support did NOT fix the problem (or refund the book), just said to archive and unarchive to try to fix it. which didn't -- the book is formatted incorrectly.

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    Posted October 11, 2011

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