{"id":2497,"date":"2008-09-19T20:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2008-09-19T20:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:17:01","slug":"its-the-f-backstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-the-f-backstop","title":{"rendered":"It’s the F*** Backstop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose that when I ran a link to the NYMag article on “the death of book publishing<\/a>,” I should’ve made it part of my F*** You, You Whining F***<\/em> series. I failed you, dear readers.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Kassia Kroszer is out there as my F*** You Backstop with a good post that bashes the living crap<\/a> out of that article and its synecdochal contention that “literary fiction” is<\/em> book publishing. Thanks, KK!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suppose that when I ran a link to the NYMag article on “the death of book publishing,” I should’ve made it part of my F*** You, You Whining F*** series. I failed you, dear readers. Fortunately, Kassia Kroszer is out there as my F*** You Backstop with a good post that bashes the living … <\/p>\n

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(In a bonus piece of cluelessness, this article also focuses on publishers' debilitating problem of returns from bookstores . . . without ever mentioning e-publishing! God forbid you mention a distribution venue that eliminates the cost of physical production, shipping\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3204,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/f-you-you-whining-f-1809","url_meta":{"origin":2497,"position":1},"title":"F*** You, You Whining F***: 1\/8\/09","author":"Gil","date":"January 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of these entries have focused on the publishing industry, because I read about it and its constituents tend to whine a lot. I haven't written so much about the financial crisis in that context, so I'll remedy that now. 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The person from NM\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2279,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/f-you-you-whining-f-82008","url_meta":{"origin":2497,"position":5},"title":"F*** You, You Whining F***: 8\/20\/08","author":"Gil","date":"August 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Ann Patchett complains about going on book tours and having to SELL her book and her writer-persona to the public? F*** You, You Whining F***. 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