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So Why Shouldn't Joe The Plumber Publish A Book?
In a much-noted New York Times essay last Sunday, Timothy Egan grandly harrumphing about the likes of Sarah Palin and campaign celebrity Samuel Wurzelbacher ("Joe the Plumber") landing book contracts while so many talented and trained writers languish unpublished. And yet, Michael Pastore points out, if the writing of books was permitted only to trained professionals, consider whose works would never have seen print: Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, the Bronte sisters, Getrude Stein, W.E.B. DuBois… Epublishers Weekly 12/09/08
In a much-noted New York Times essay last Sunday, Timothy Egan grandly harrumphing about the likes of Sarah Palin and campaign celebrity Samuel Wurzelbacher ("Joe the Plumber") landing book contracts while so many talented and trained writers languish unpublished. And yet, Michael Pastore points out, if the writing of books was permitted only to trained professionals, consider whose works would never have seen print: Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, the Bronte sisters, Getrude Stein, W.E.B. DuBois… Epublishers Weekly 12/09/08
Posted December 9, 2008 09:25 PM
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