Movie people can enjoy the worst schlock and Ingmar Bergman: they throw it all together. For book people, trash and art do not ride in the same part of the bus...more
I work for a publishing company that deals mainly with literary fiction, and most of my friends work for publishers or agencies. We all read a hugely eclectic variety of books too, from comics to crime to children's fantasy to whatever happens to light our candles, and we don't feel remotely 'guilty' about any of them. So I'm also vaguely puzzled by this idea that literary book people only read 'highbrow' books: only vaguely, though, as it's such a silly article.
This made me giggle, though: ...the British book-world people I've known have been much more buccaneering and extraverted than American books people, and much more devil-may-care. Much better at parties too, by the way.
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Date: 2004-01-12 04:52 pm (UTC)This made me giggle, though:
...the British book-world people I've known have been much more buccaneering and extraverted than American books people, and much more devil-may-care. Much better at parties too, by the way.
- arcly, who is British