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Alan Jacobs
Born
in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States
September 28, 1958
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KK on publishing
This post by Kevin Kelly about publishing is interesting and informative, but it gets some things wrong. For instance, he says this about the traditional publishing route:
Read more of this blog post »The task: You create the material; then professionals edit, package, manufacture, distribute, promote, and sell the material. You make, they sell. At the appropriate time, you appear on a book store tour to great applause, to
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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
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2017
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15 editions
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The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
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2005
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28 editions
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
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2011
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10 editions
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
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2020
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8 editions
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The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
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2018
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9 editions
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The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography
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2013
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7 editions
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Original Sin: A Cultural History
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2008
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13 editions
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The Gnostic Gospels: Including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene (Sacred Texts Book 2)
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A Theology Of Reading: The Hermeneutics Of Love
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2001
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11 editions
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Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant
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2010
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3 editions
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“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort of person who is delighted chiefl y by what some people call Great Books, don’t make them your steady intellectual diet, any more than you would eat at the most elegant of restaurants every day. It would be too much. Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.”
― The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
― The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
“Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.”
― The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
― The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
“I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not discernment. There are times indeed when Christian charity demands that one speak forcibly.”
― A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age
― A Visit to Vanity Fair: Moral Essays on the Present Age
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