Dirt and greasy fluff
Mad Max Perkins' tell-all blog turns out the pockets of the publishing biz in NYC. From a Crain’s New York Business article earlier this month:
There must be some form of Schadenfreude involved in my fascination with this site. No one is safe. Not even Michiko Kakutani.
An undercover blogger is bashing the book industry. A veteran New York editor started BookAngst 101 last month out of frustration with how poorly books are selling. Preferring to remain anonymous, he goes by the moniker Mad Max Perkins, after the legendary Scribner's editor. "It occurred to me there wasn't anybody on the inside of publishing talking in straight-on terms about the business," says Mad Max, who is so leery of being outed that he spoke for this interview from a pay phone near his office.
There must be some form of Schadenfreude involved in my fascination with this site. No one is safe. Not even Michiko Kakutani.
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