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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
1: Introduction: The Estrangement of Creation, Production, and Reception
Part I: The Field of Creation
2: The Structure of Creativity: Or, Why Jarrettsville Almost Wasn’t Called Jarrettsville
3: Authorial Careers: Or, How $6,000 Becomes a Middle-Class Income
Part II: From Creation to Production
4: Literary Agents and Double Duties: Or, Why an Author’s Success Is Out of Her Control
Part III: The Field of Production
5: Decision Making, Taste, and Financial Commitment to Culture: Or, Why Counterpoint Press Accepted Jarrettsville after Rejecting It
6: Industry Structure and the Position and Disposition of Publishers: Or, How Some of the End of Jarrettsville Quite Literally Became the Beginning
7: Storytelling and Mythmaking: Or, How a One-Sentence Email Nearly Doubled a Print Run
Part IV: From Production to Reception
8: Retailers and Reviewers: Or, How Being Placed on the Front Table Could Have Tanked Jarrettsville
Part V: The Field of Reception
9: Reading Life into Novels: Or, Why a Misanthropic Thug May Not Be All Bad
10: Reading Novels into Life: Or, How a Story about the Past Became a Story about the Present
Part VI: Connecting the Circuit
11: Conclusion: Reconnecting Creation, Production, and Reception
Methodological Appendix: From There to Here
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
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