![]() In 450 BC, for example, when Herodotus (a.k.a. Writers (and to varying extent, their publishers) have long struggled to justify the relevance of readings, both to themselves and to prospective audience members. Go to your basic reading and sit in the back row, where if you squint, you will see above the head of almost everyone involved - the writer(s)/reader(s), the audience, the publicist, the bookseller, the sales clerk(s) who set up the chairs and must wait around to take them down before heading out to an indie-rock show, the local reporter doing a trend piece on the decline of readings - a clump of thought bubbles bumping up against each other like trapped balloons, all imprinted with slight variations of the same theme, namely: “Why are we here?” Nine Writers and Publicists Tell All About Readings and Book ToursĪuthor readings and book tours are not an essential component of the writing or publishing processes, and so these events have long been associated with a kind of miasmic purposelessness. ![]()
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