"And someday, of course, the world will end. In the meantime, smaller worlds end all the time," Tom Engelhardt's hero thinks that while strolling through a struggling book company in The Last Days of Publishing: A Novel.
"Facing the future of the book, my ex-wife, Connie Burian, thought an age, a world, was ending. She told me so."
This apocalyptic prose captivated me last night at the bookstore. I get worried, sometimes. But after picking up Engelhardt's book, I sat and listened to a live performance by Garrison Keillor--my oldest Midwestern role model.
Keillor founded a popular radio show a good twenty years after radio had been completely replaced by television. I grew up glued to the speakers every time he spoke, feeling nostalgia for a technology that was extinct before I was born.
Books, just like radio storytelling, are not dead. I'm going to keep pounding away at both until find my niche, just like Keillor.
In the meantime, check out this interview with Tom Engelhardt on his website--a site with countless interviews with more writers and journalists surviving in this difficult industry.
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