Tag: publishing

Helen DeWitt has co-written a novel, “Your Name Here,” together with Ilya Gridneff. It took over 20 years to publish and if you know the practical and often frustrating side of publishing industry, you can probably relate:

In 2022, a new agent finally sold the novel. Even then, publication was delayed, in part because of the complicated process of printing a book with foreign script, shifting font sizes and dozens of images, including photos of the filmmaker Federico Fellini, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno and the actor Tom Cruise (the book ends, inexplicably, with an image of Cruise, waving and smiling).

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“The only solution, I thought, was to make the impossibility key to the book and use it for comic effect,” she explained.

This seems exactly like a book I need right now and she sounds like a real legend.

Above is cited from a recent profile in The New York Times.