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Author | : Jason Boog |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-07-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781935928911 |
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It's tough being an author these days, and it's getting harder. A recent Authors Guild survey showed that the median income for all published authors in 2017, based solely on book-related activities, was just over $3,000, down more than 20% from eight years previously. Roughly 25% of authors earned nothing at all. Price cutting by retailers, notably Amazon, has forced publishers to pay their writers less. A stagnant economy, with only the rich seeing significant income increases, has hit writers along with everyone else. But, as Jason Boog shows in a rich mix of history and politics, this is not the first period when writers have struggled to scratch a living. Between accounts of contemporary layoffs and shrinking paychecks for authors and publishing professionals are stories from the 1930s when writers, hard hit by the Great Depression, fought to create unions and New Deal projects like the Federal Writers Project that helped to put wordsmiths back to work. By revisiting these stories, Boog points the way to how writers today can stand with other progressive forces fighting for economic justice and, in doing so, help save a vital cultural profession under existential threat.
Author | : Rick McGrath |
Publisher | : Titan Books (US, CA) |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1803363185 |
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A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock. Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and Cocaine Nights show a world out of joint – a bewildering, alienating and yet enthralling place. From his rapturously weird takes on contemporary reality to his classic dystopias like The Drowned World and High Rise, Ballard’s legacy shaped the future of literature. This first-of-its-kind anthology, featuring our greatest literary and science fiction authors, pays tribute to the unique visions of humanity’s uncanny and uneasy clash with the future – our empires of concrete – seen through the warped lens of J. G. Ballard.
Author | : United States. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1210 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Total Pages | : 1366 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1296 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
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Author | : Nic Compton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147294111X |
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Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds – and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1396 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1372 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Assassination |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1554 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Banking law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Patrick Forsyth |
Publisher | : Kogan Page Publishers |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780749445522 |
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Forsyth provides practical pointers on presenting a proposal clearly and persuasively. Using checklists, exercises and examples, he explains how to make a plan, transfer ideas into writing and edit them to achieve best results.