Reminder: in choosing AD, Oprah wasn’t just sprinkling magic bestseller dust in a random title. Oprah is in business with Flatiron. In 2015, Oprah sold a memoir to Flatiron for a reported eight figures — and agreed to run an imprint there.
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Does this mean shenanigans are afoot? I have no idea. Does it mean I think reporters doing deep dives on what AMERICAN DIRT says about publishing should at least mention that fact? And ask Oprah and Flatiron publisher Bob Miller what’s up? I do.
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If this is about institutions — how they operate, how they’re connected, how they protect themselves and each other — we can look at those institutions. We can see their flaws. We can listen to the people who’ve been harmed. We can challenge them (and ourselves) to do better.
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But if this is about “angry mob goes after author; threatens free speech, First Amendment, American Way of Life,” then those institutions — which will be around long after we stop talking about this one book — don’t have to change. They can keep doing business as usual.
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“The heart of the problem is the industry — the critics, agents, publicists, book dealers...They’ve shown just how little they know about the immigrant experience beyond the headlines.”
@BermudezWrites on the flaws in the system.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-24/american-dirt-book-latino-response?_amp=true …Prikaži ovu nit
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I think "stop giving out big advances! Just give ten authors twenty thousand dollars apiece!" take is a little simplistic --
@annasproul had an excellent Twitter tutorial -- but yes, clearly there's an audience for those books. If any good comes out of this, etc.. - Još 1 odgovor
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Thanks Jennifer. I know some people are struggling to understand the depth & scope of
#AmericanDirt: what went wrong, why it’s painful for Latinos, what it says about an industry that remains 75-90% white. I hope reading my commentary in the@latimes helps https://twitter.com/bermudezwrites/status/1220821215910060033?s=21 …https://twitter.com/BermudezWrites/status/1220821215910060033 … -
The latest figures showing the lack of racial diversity in publishing were released Jan. 28. This is the heart of the
#AmericanDirt problem. (Latinos = 6%) Will book industry leaders hold themselves accountable & change or will they protect the status quo? https://t.co/4SJrYe47Ob https://twitter.com/bermudezwrites/status/1222194945332613121?s=21 …
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