Words of wisdom (sort of)

On media coverage

Lin: Getting a lot of media coverage is fun and interesting and relieves boredom, but I don’t really think “success” when I think about it.

Strauss: An adage I’ve heard is: The time preceding the release of your book is the calm before the calm. So almost any attention is great—especially for novels. But it depends on the type of press. I’ve been the target of some snarky coverage—inaccurate accounts of my wedding, for example, and a few egregious misquotings—which didn’t help or hurt in the long term. It was just weird.

Stern: This type of success is fleeting and, in my experience, doesn’t add up to more than calls from family. Of course, I am talking about my media coverage, so who knows.

Maazel: Hard to say. Too much media coverage and people start to hate you. Too little and no one knows you are alive enough to hate you for it. In the main, it’s nice to get noticed for what you have done, for better or worse, though it is, of course, painful when it is for the worse.

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The authors

Jonathan Ames
Essayist (I Love You More than You Know) and novelist (Wake Up, Sir!)

Tao Lin
Novelist, poet (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy), blogger

Fiona Maazel
Author of Last Last Chance

Ed Park
The Believer coeditor and author of Personal Days

Christopher Sorrentino
Author of Sound on Sound and the NBA-nominated Trance

Amanda Stern
Curator of the Happy Ending Series and author of The Long Haul

Darin Strauss
Novelist (Chang and Eng and More than It Hurts You)

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Time Out New York / Issue 669 : Jul 22–30, 2008

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