Andrew Wylie has just 'inked' a deal with Amazon that has the publishing world shitting itself. It is for me, little more than poetic justice and a great leap forward for the future of literacy and literature. Wylie is a high end literary agent who handles the rights of authors like Philip Roth, John Updike, Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis - Amis being one of my favorite writers and belonging to the club of English writers I expect to immerse myself in over the next year or so including Robert Conquest, Ian McEwan and George Steiner, all inheritors if Hitchens is to be believed of the tradition of Auden. I like Updike too - I never finished Portnoy got bored when I tried in high school and I found the Satanic Verses too dreamtimey.
This is actually a momentous occasion to me as a software guy and as a blogger, who constantly hears gripes from a certain cadre of snobs that the Internet is not real. My answer to that is, this is not English and you are not reading it. But of course it is, and the point is that you get it into your thick skull any way you can. Now the electronic way carry much more weight in its content than ever before.
I will be ever so happy to have Amazon as my librarian.
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