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Laura B. McGrathtextCrunch: the art and (data) science of book publishing. A monthly digest of the best data-driven research about books, publishing, and culture— for the people who can do something about it.
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Happy New Year, Substack! Can I still say that, here in the third week of January? For many academics, the month of January gets gobbled up by the start of a new semester. This spring, I’m so delighted to be teaching a course on Young Adult...
The Age of the Middleman
In 2024, as I was completing my book, I reconnected with a very famous literary agent over Zoom. I call her “very famous,” because her name carries a lot of weight in her professional community and in some circles of the literary world, but...
"Sticky" Genres
Last week, I shared a study about reading habits and introduced the Cultural Omnivore hypothesis. The study, “The Eclectic Reader” by James English and J.D. Porter (two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania) is chock full of fascina...
The Omnivore Dilemma
Hey there, Substack, it’s been a minute.
I’m back in the classroom after two years of research leave (thank you, NEH), and I am happy to report that my students are as engaging and brilliant and delightful as ever. Great news for me! But b...
BONUS: The Best Nonfiction of the Year
Hello, textCrunch readers!
When working on abstract numbers or large-scale categories, it can be easy to forget that I do, in fact, read books. Lots and lots of them. I love reading books so much that I spent an ungodly number of years in...
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I'm an English professor, literary critic, and data scientist, studying the art and (data) science of how literature gets made. I'm the author of of MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (forthcoming, Princeton UP)
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