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After you write your book, get an agent and get it published, then (if your agent didn't sell it to some big, bullshit publisher with a heavy-duty hype department, in which case you do whatever dumb-ass thing they tell you to do), you have to somehow get someone to read the sucker...and review it. That's close to impossible. The pages with this notification have thousands of media boys and girls listed, one of whom may hype your book. They have to justify their existence somehow, right? G.

July 3, 2023

"On or before July 14, 2023" the host of my website is bagging it for lots of exquisite reasons. So am I. You can see the last 20 years or so here:

https://web.archive.org (stick everyonewhosanyone.com in the box).

They're getting rid of my email address, too. Use this:

gerardjones@proton.me

If you want to read my written stuff, click this:

https://gerardjones.medium.com/lists

If you want to see or listen to my video/audio books, click these or this and look around:

https://vimeo.com/showcase/9864586

https://vimeo.com/showcase/9862816

https://vimeo.com/user41893142

If you want to know how to write, click this:

https://gerardjones.substack.com

Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones
gerardjones@proton.me

Conde Nast Publications
1 World Trade Center
New York, NY 10007

(The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Entertainment, Wired, etc.)

https://www.condenast.com

The New Yorker
1 World Trade Center
New York, NY 10007

https://www.newyorker.com

Vanity Fair
1 World Trade Center
New York, NY 10007

https://www.vanityfair.com

Conde Nast Entertainment
1 World Trade Center
New York, NY 10007

https://www.condenast.com/entertainment

Hearst Corporation
300 W. 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

(Esquire, etc.)

https://www.hearst.com

Esquire
300 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

https://www.esquire.com

The class was taught by Gordon Lish. He's sort of famous now, too—or he was there for a while, anyway. He was fiction editor at Esquire in the seventies. Then he was an editor at Knopf, ran prestigious writing seminars and made some kind of a stir in the publishing industry in the eighties by suing Harper's Magazine. The books he edited were critically acclaimed stylistic bare bones masterpieces but never seemed to make much money—things by guys like Don DeLillo and Barry Hannah and Rick Bass and Raymond Carver and Harold Brodkey and Cynthia Ozick and Amy Hempel—and the five or six books he wrote himself enjoyed some critical success themselves but made even less money, which made it hard to show any actual damages when he sued Harper's for publishing an unauthorized handout from one of his seminars. I'm not sure how it all came about.

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8961598

Oprah Daily
300 West 57th St., 11th Flr.
New York, NY 10019

https://www.oprahdaily.com

The Paris Review
544 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001

https://www.theparisreview.org

Harper's Magazine
666 Broadway, 11th Flr.
New York, NY, 10012

https://harpers.org

The New York Review of Books
435 Hudson Street, Ste. 300
New York, NY 10014

https://www.nybooks.com

Rolling Stone
475 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10017

https://www.rollingstone.com

I came to an area where the crowd had formed a circle around a woman who was dancing obliviously, all by herself. She was wearing a thin, faded, blue and white pioneer dress. I could see her breasts through the loose armholes. Her hair was long and straight and streaked lighter and darker shades of blond. The sun on her throat made her look vulnerable. Sweat glistened on her forehead. Blades of grass poked up between her long, narrow toes. She didn't shave her legs. Janis Joplin stopped singing. Silent, twangy reverberations from the sound system hung in the air for about a tenth of a second, then people screamed and yelled and clapped their hands, and the dancing chick fell into a heap of arms and legs and blond hair and faded blue fabric on the bright green grass.

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8955856

Slate
15 MetroTech Center, 8th Flr.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

1707 L St. NW, Ste. 800
Washington, D.C., 20036

https://slate.com

Time Magazine
225 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10281

https://time.com

Newsweek
1 World Trade Center, Flr. 72
New York, NY, 10007

https://www.newsweek.com

The New Criterion
900 Broadway, Ste. 602
New York, NY 10003

https://newcriterion.com

The New Inquiry
20 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201

http://thenewinquiry.com