Urgent.News

One page, thousands of outlets. See who else covered it.

Editions

Culture

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

For the true beginner, there can be no end. From the moment they sit at the desk, the unemerged writer faces a step-by-step gauntlet of workshopping, applying, contesting; of liking screenshots of Publishers Weekly deals announcements, making astral connections between

The Submitters: On the Literary Economy of Unreadness

We haven't written up this one. Literary Hub has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at lithub.com →

More in Culture

Did Smartphones Really Kill Reading?

Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text…

More from Wednesday 19 August →