You're Published. Now the Fun Begins? Think Again. (NY Times):
Writers just want to be humiliated. Over and over again. That's the way it seemed to Robin Robertson, a Scottish poet and editor who solicited authors' reminiscences about their most humiliating moments for a book. The stories poured in. Writers, some famous, seemed only too glad to share their humiliations. The result, "Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame," published last month by Fourth Estate, is bound to ensure their humiliations endure, on paper. [...]
The idea for the book came to him after he escorted authors to readings and finding "a sign saying `Reading Canceled,' or three chairs occupied by people released from mental institutions and not thought to be violent," he said. "People who would much rather be gluing seashells to flower pots."
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