“It’s better, I think, for readers not to communicate too directly with an author because the author is, strangely enough, beside the point.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
more infosource: “A Note from Jeffrey Eugenides to Readers,” author’s Facebook page, November 3, 2011.
category: anonymity, author, book, publicity
medium: social media
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
Louis Brandeis
more infosource: Other People’s Money: and How the Bankers Use It (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914), 92.
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category: disease, disinfectant, light, police, publicity, sunlight, transparency
medium: nonfiction
publicity