The History of Publishing

[rachelmanija]

Sherwood has a guest post at Charlie Stross's blog on the history of English-language publishing. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It began when [Curll] first pirated Pope, prompting the poet and his publisher to meet Curll at the Swan, where they slipped a mega dose of "physic" (think ExLax) into his drink.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Thanks for the link; that was fascinating. Your books are on my "read next" list.

[melebeth]

Utterly unrelated, but I just saw a theater/advocacy piece about PTSD and Shakespeare that made me think of you. If you ever get a chance to see it, I recommend it wholeheartedly. He also does great work running Shakespeare workshops for veterans. Amazing show, amazing man :https://m.facebook.com/cryhavoctheplay/posts/1540093366218491

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Can you tell me more about it? The link doesn't say much.

[melebeth]

I'll write you a long thing about it when I'm feeling less kicked in the head by germs, but it's basically a one man show about his experiences as a veteran with PTSD and how Shakespeare helped him find words for his experiences. It's funny and heartbreaking and makes the very clear, and accurate, point that we do a great job of training soldiers for war and almost nothing to retrain them for peace. Artistically, it's brilliant, and it is one of the most eye opening things about the experience of war as a combatant that I have ever witnessed. Called the audience, me included, on a lot of perspective shifts that most people suck at, in a way that promoted empathy rather than shutting it down.