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The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today
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A book by Jason Boog exploring the literary scene during the Great Depression in comparison to today's.
A book by Jason Boog exploring the literary scene during the Great Depression and drawing parallels to contemporary times.
A book by Jason Boog, West Coast correspondent for Publishers Weekly, exploring the literary scene during the Great Depression and its parallels to today.
A book by Jason that explores the literary scene during the Great Depression and compares it to today's landscape.
A book by Jason Boog, exploring the literary scene during the Great Depression and its parallels with today.
A book by Jason Boog that explores the literary scene during the Great Depression and compares it to the modern day.
It’s tough being an author these days, and it’s getting harder. A recent Authors Guild survey showed that the median income for all published authors in 2017, based solely on book-related activities, was just over $3,000, down more than 20% from eight years previously. Roughly 25% of authors earned nothing at all. Price cutting by retailers, notably Amazon, has forced publishers to pay their writers less. A stagnant economy, with only the rich seeing significant income increases, has hit writers along with everyone else. This is not the first period when writers have struggled to scratch a living. The Deep End by Jason Boog is a rich mix of history and politics that looks back to the 1930s when writers, hard hit by the Great Depression, fought to create unions and New Deal projects like the Federal Writers Project to help put wordsmiths back to work. By revisiting these stories, Boog suggests how writers today can join other progressive forces fighting for economic justice, to help save a vital cultural profession under threat.