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Dan Sinykin

Bylines

Bookselling Out

“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.

by Dan Sinykin via The Baffler on October 16, 2024

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

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Page Against the Machine

Dan Sinykin’s history of corporate fiction.

by Mitch Therieau via Bookforum on February 6, 2024

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Big Publishing Killed the Author

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on November 15, 2023

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There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters

Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.

by Melina Moe via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 26, 2024

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