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Title: Part Insight, Part Lament
Review: This book is by Jason Epstein who also did a series of lectures on this topic (this is from the introduction). It is part autobiography, part history of publishing, part lament, and part prediction. At times, it provides a romantic view of editors and what they wish to accomplish. It then shows where the publishers of today are not keeping with this view.For the most part, however, it provides an analysis of why things don't work they way they should. Although it seems as if Epstein is crying about it, he couches this in language that shows how the whole publishing industry remains in a state of flux and that this is just another view of this flux.The book has good flow, and it is a quick read. If you read New Grub Street and felt emboldened rather than defeated, then this is the book for you.
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