We were thrilled to have dan sinykin with us for a discussion of big fiction how changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature dan santat is an assistant professor of english at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in, quantitative theory and methods. Hes the author of American Literature and the long downturn neoliberal apocalypse and his writing has appeared in the new york times. The washington, the los angeles review of books, the rumpus and other publications joining dan in conversation is coeditor and publisher of nw plus mark krotov. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming dan and mark to the stage. Hello. Thanks so much for being here. Theres so many places to start. Ill start with myself. How about that . I one of the things that is very exciting to me about talking to you about this book is that i, in some have lived it or have lived a little piece of it working at end. Plus one obviously weve written about about pop, ive written about publishing
We have wine and beer and music on the weekends. How many book events do you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis, about 600 a year. Often kid events, adult events, other kinds of things but we are very active. When did you open . About 35 years ago. Why . Well, you know, the story is basically i was an english major in college. I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of the literary culture and one quick way to do that was to get into the book business. I loved bookstores when i was a kid. I saw myself at the bookstore more than the library in college. I went to law school. Why coral gables . I am originally from miami beach so when i moved back from where i was going to school, coral gables was a community i didnt know very well but i explored it. It was right before an independent book shop at the time ripe for an surrounded by miami . What you think of miami is really about 26 different little cities. Miami beach, miami, miami south. So coral gables is just one of thos
If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It supports local jobs, supports our book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors books here today. So let me introduce kristen. Kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and thats important because its important to
Anymore. You have to let other people tell their stories about coke, okay . So is he was talking in, you know, in these terms, in advertising terms about how its no longer dont tell us how green giant grew from a little sprout to a giant, you have to let people tell you about their experiences with green bean cat role. But in cat role. He said its not beginning, middle and end anymore. People go into worlds online, and they want to live in those worlds, and they want to experience them. I remember this, this was a long time ago, playing mist, you know . Thinking i dont want to win, i just want to hang out in this world for a while. And its the same thing with all of these Online Gaming experiences and worlds and places you can go into. I think the idea of what a story is, is actually cracking and changing. And that could be for good or for bad, but it does have a lot of effect on Attention Span and what we decide to read and consume, and, you know, how we find out about stories. So its
Is, is actually cracking and changing. And that could be for good or for bad, but it does have a lot of effect on Attention Span and what we decide to read and consume, and, you know, how we find out about stories. So its kind of im leaving that kind of amorphous, but i thought it was really something to Pay Attention to. No, i think its an excellent point. Susan, now you as a novelist also who has a new book coming out who is now no longer hiding it there [laughter] how engaged in the social media world are you . Do you try to do everything . Do you find something that youre most comfortable with . What are you sort of feeling like these days promoting yourself and your own book . Yeah. Thats not one of my strengths. Im just really not that comfortable on social media. Im trying to be a little more aggressive about it. Im finally i think two books ago the publicist set up for me a Facebook Page and a twitter account, and im only now just trying to learn how to use the twitter account