field note from the trenches of american publishing
"I am complicit, I am in the wrong, particularly in light of my own experiences and values, but I am trapped in a commercial market. I like my paycheque."
Like most career writers, many of the people I know work in publishing. A disproportionate number are American, simply because the USA is the global centre of the English-language bookselling market. Book people, by and large, tend to be clever, broadminded and reasonably progressive. They have opinions and they like t…