A Sampling of Readings about the Literary Publishing Industry

A list of some of the readings that we engage together as a staff in ENGL460 and ENGL461. 
Critical Issues in the Publishing Industry:
Hiring & Retention
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Deahl, "Why Publishing Is So White" 

Jackson, "Diversity in Publishing Doesn't Exist, But It Can" 

Older, "Diversity Is Not Enough"

Patel, "Diversity Needs to Start With Employers"

Willoughby, "Where Have All the Black Editors Gone?" 

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

Muslar, "Young Arts Administrators of Color Reinvigorating the Field"
Critical Issues in the Publishing Industry:
​Acquisitions and Representation
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Aiello, "Equity in Publishing"

Clemmons, "What It Means to Be an Inclusive Literary Journal"

Ho, "Diversity In Book Publishing Isn't Just About Writers — Marketing Matters, Too"

Kon-Yu, "Diversity, The Stella Count, and the Whiteness of Australian Publishing"

Lapointe, "The Alienating Lack of Disability Representation in Literature"

Lee, " 'Your manuscript is not a good fit': How We Need Diverse Books Can Move Beyond Wishful Thinking"

Milan, "Speaking Up Against Systemic Racism in the Publishing Industry"

Neary,  "To Achieve Diversity In Publishing, A Difficult Dialogue Beats Silence"

Rankine, "What's In a Number? Diversity Quotas in Publishing"

Salesses, "We Need Diverse Diverse Books"

Literary Agents Discuss the Diversity Gap in Publishing
​​Data About the Industry
2015 Baseline Diversity Results (also see "Chat about Diversity in Publishing")

​VIDA Count

Pew Research Center Book Reading Report

Association of American Publishers Trade Publishing Report 

Author Earnings Report 

Author News Penguin House
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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.

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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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