{"id":1324,"date":"2009-01-23T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/pub-tech\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T12:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T19:41:36","slug":"pub-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/23\/pub-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1873122-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">from TIME Magazine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font: normal normal bold 28px\/normal arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; line-height: 32px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Books Unbound<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal bold 11px\/normal georgia, arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; padding-top: 5px\" class=\"byline\">By Lev Grossman<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn&#8217;t get her book published for love or money. She had a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard, but she couldn&#8217;t get an agent. &#8220;I did what you&#8217;re supposed to do,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I queried literary agents. I went to writers&#8217; conferences and tried to network. I e-mailed editors. Nobody wanted it.&#8221; So Genova paid $450 to a company called iUniverse and published her book, Still Alice, herself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/daily\/2009\/0901\/a_apublishing_0202.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"160\" width=\"240\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/>That was in 2007. By 2008 people were reading Still Alice. Not a lot of people, but a few, and those few were liking it. Genova wound up getting an agent after all&#8211;and an offer from Simon &amp; Schuster of just over half a million dollars. Borders and Target chose it for their book clubs. Barnes &amp; Noble made it a Discover pick. On Jan. 25, Still Alice will make its debut on the New York Times best-seller list at No. 5. &#8220;So this is extreme to extreme, right?&#8221; Genova says. &#8220;This time last year, I was selling the book out of the trunk of my car.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/2008\/top10\/article\/0,30583,1855948_1864143,00.html\" style=\"font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal georgia, arial, sans-serif; color: #003366; text-decoration: underline\" target=\"_blank\">See the top 10 non-fiction books of 2008.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Something has changed, and it&#8217;s not just the contents of Lisa Genova&#8217;s trunk. We think of the novel as a transcendent, timeless thing, but it was shaped by the forces of money and technology just as much as by creative genius. Passing over a few classical and Far Eastern entries, the novel in its modern form really got rolling only in the early 18th century. This wasn&#8217;t an accident, and it didn&#8217;t happen because a bunch of writers like Defoe and Richardson and Fielding suddenly decided we should be reading long books about imaginary people. It happened as a result of an unprecedented configuration of financial and technological circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1873122-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TIME.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME Magazine Books Unbound By Lev Grossman Here&#8217;s a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn&#8217;t get her book published for love or money. She had a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard, but she couldn&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}