Controversy sells books.
From Robert Gottlieb
If Tom Clancy didn't write any Op-Centers, he would be $60 million less rich.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
It's a crapshoot, publishing.
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
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