“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.” KnowsFirstsStillsBookHappensDifficultBehindsNovelKnowingIndustrySceneOfficeFirst TimeLeapElitesPublishingOccasionalBehind The ScenesInsidersWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.” MenMayHas BeensStillsTodaySchoolGivenGoneHonorEthicsProfessorsGraduatesElites1960sScholarshipReservedYaleGraduate SchoolWasps Author:Camille Paglia
“Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.” MenHas BeensStillsBookTodayCultureForgetDealsMassTraditionCriticismLonelySeriesCrowdsPlentyExceptionOur SocietyStringsConformityMediocrityConspiracyElitesVolumeStereotypeSymptomsDissentIndicationSellersOrganizationalBest SellersMass CultureEpithet Author:Kenneth Rexroth