Recommended Readings about the Literary Publishing Industry

About Literary Magazines - General
Burt, "The Persistence of Literary Magazines"
Kuebler, "Literary Magazines in Context"
History of the CLMP


Careers in Editing
Demary, "This Is How You Become an Editor"


Diversity, Inclusion, and Publishing
Aiello, "Equity in Publishing"
Clemmons, "What It Means to Be an Inclusive Literary Journal"
Milan, "Speaking Up Against Systemic Racism in the Publishing Industry"
Rankine, "What's In a Number? Diversity Quotas in Publishing"
Salesses, "We Need Diverse Diverse Books"
Willoughby, "Where Have All the Black Editors Gone?"


​Data About the Industry
2015 Baseline Diversity Results
​VIDA Count
Pew Research Center Book Reading Report
Association of American Publishers Trade Publishing Report 
Author Earnings Report 
Author News Penguin House

Trade Magazines

Books Related to Publishing

Brier, A Novel Marketplace : Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction.

Calaso, The Art of the Publisher.
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Coles, Blueprints: Bringing Poetry into Communities.

Collins, Bring on the Books for Everybody.
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Conroy, Muse in the Machine.

Dana, Robert. Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers.

Endsley, The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry.

English, The Economy of Prestige.

Epstein, Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future.
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Farr and Harker, eds., The Oprah Effect.

Hartley, Reading Groups.

Hungerford, Making Literature Now.

Hungerford, Literature and the Creative Economy.

Kurowski, ed., Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine.

Lehmann-Haupt, The Book in America : A History of the Making and Selling of Books (1951)

Licona​, Adela C.  Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric.

Long, Book Clubs.

Mathieu, Parks, and Rousculp,  eds.,Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing.


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Miller, Prufer, and Kurowski, eds., Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century.

​Morris and Diaz, The Little Magazine in Contemporary America.

Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. 

Philip, Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture. 

Rankine, Claudia, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap, eds. The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. 

Robinson, The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture. 

Rooney, Reading with Oprah.

Schiffrin, ​The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read.

Striphas, The Late Age of Print.
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Siegfried, The Insider's Guide to A Career in Book Publishing.

Thaxton, Creative Writing in the Community.

Thoburn, Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing.

Thompson, Merchants of Culture. 

Young, Black Writers, White Publishers : Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature.
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