“Publishing is often an extremely negative culture.”
Author and ex-soldier for the publishing world, former Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House and fiction editor of The New Yorker Daniel Menaker attempts to break down the industry’s struggle into variables of audience, cost, risk, and heart in his recent essay, “Redactor Agonistes.”
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Kathleen Alcott's first words were "Ooh, the lights." She is currently awaiting some good news about her first novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, which concerns two brothers who have conversations in their sleep, the girl who hears them, and what happens when families are not drawn by blood. A freelance writer in New York, she is presently locked in her bedroom composing short fiction about loud women and the men who love them. Her personal essays appear on The Rumpus and in Rumpus Women Vol. 1, and her writing also appears in The Bold Italic. She welcomes correspondence at
Kathleenmarisol@gmail.com.
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