“For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.” ThinkingWayWritingKindDifferentDoneAudienceWrittenLike YouDisciplineLike Yourself Author:Louis Menand
“Just in higher education alone, more people go to college now, by enormous amounts, than went to college in the '50's and '60's. So that represents a whole new literate public that's a consumer of literature, of news, of print, of, you know, opinion. And that's a bigger audience and much more diverse audience than it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWholeUsedLiteratureOpinionAudienceCollegeAmountHigherNewsBiggerEnormousUsed To BeConsumersPrintDiverseHigher Education Author:Louis Menand
“I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me.” PeopleWayWritingKindDifferentMatterSeemsCertainAudienceIntellectualNo Matter WhatDifferent WaysHatsAcademicDifferent KindsScholarlyReadership Author:Louis Menand
