{"id":109778,"date":"2016-11-17T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109778"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:08:13","slug":"lat-publishers-are-reeling-from-trumps-win-but-the-news-is-not-all-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109778","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Publishers are reeling from Trump’s win, but the news is not all bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Times<\/a>: The morning after Donald Trump won the presidential election, Paul Bogaards awoke with \u201ca feeling of despair and dread or worse.\u201d The director of public relations at Knopf Doubleday emailed that to his staff; he also told them that if they needed to they could take the day off, but that he was going to work that day…<\/p>\n

Bogaards\u2019 message about the power of books was meant to fend off a sense of foreboding widely shared in New York literary and publishing circles. By and large, people in publishing had expected Hillary Clinton to win the presidency. Mainstream publishing \u201cexists in a bubble, in the same way that the media exists in a bubble,\u201d Bogaards told The Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are, for the most part, a bastion of the liberal elite,\u201d he added ruefully. That Donald Trump will be president of the United States has shaken that community to the core…<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty grim,\u201d is how Dayna Tortorici, co-editor of the small leftist intellectual magazine n+1, described the mood in its offices in Brooklyn. \u201cWe\u2019re still reeling.\u201d n+1 had been in the middle of closing an issue when the results came in late on Nov. 8 \u2014 and stopped. Several articles in the issue were predicated on the expectation of a Clinton presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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