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Now, if you read last year's \u003ci\u003eThe Plot\u003c\/i\u003e  by Jean Hanff Korelitz, you'll notice that this novel has a similar,  uh, plot as that one... They are both thrillers about, of all  things, intellectual property. Korelitz's book was tighter and darker. \u003cb\u003e Lipstein's is funnier. Both are incredibly entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e... If Lipstein had written a less cunning book, he might have contrasted  Caleb with a character who represented artistic purity, whatever that  is. But everyone here sits somewhere on the grifter spectrum, including  the real people (Avi, doomed woman, repressed married couple) upon whom  Caleb's characters are based... In addition to a blithe streak, Caleb has a cruel streak,  a petty streak and an intemperate streak, and \u003cb\u003eLipstein milks the comedy  of these traits almost as well as Kingsley Amis did in \u003ci\u003eLucky Jim\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times, Editor's Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you've ever wondered where writers get their ideas from, \u003ci\u003eLast Resort\u003c\/i\u003e is wicked fun. If you're a writer, \u003ci\u003eLast Resort\u003c\/i\u003e is heartburn in print\u003c\/b\u003e. Splayed across these pages is the dark terror that lurks within any creative person's breast: the embarrassing facts that might demolish the glorious claims made in the name of literary invention...\u003cb\u003e A deliciously absurd comedy about literary fame\u003c\/b\u003e. * Ron Charles, WASHINGTON POST *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLipstein gleefully scrutinizes the nature of success in an industry that runs as much on vanity as on financial gain\u003c\/b\u003e... The book's command of contemporary-hipster details is wincingly precise. * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTalent is rare, which is why I let out a big yippee reading Andrew Lipstein's \u003ci\u003eLast Resort\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, one of a trio of \u003cb\u003eexcellent  \u003c\/b\u003enew first novels by men... Lipstein doesn't just blast  chunks out of the inflated artifice of New York's literary scene, he  turns his fire on the city at large too, or at least its hipster  quarters, all \"friendly, progressive, organic, recyclable\"... There is something in Lipstein's novel that is specific to new male  novelists - their conscious sensitivity about writing sex. Lipstein  takes this head on. In \u003ci\u003eLast Resort\u003c\/i\u003e the novel-within-the-novel is  slated online for its \"male gaze\". This is \u003cb\u003eculturally astute\u003c\/b\u003e (it's an  accusation any man runs the risk of when he puts pen to paper,  especially post #MeToo) and a smart way for Lipstein to say: I get it. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou won't read a more brilliantly executed literary romp this  yea\u003c\/b\u003er... An unsparing satire of a generation of millennials who fear that  their lives lack gravitas and emotional depth * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA funny, fast-paced  literary satire\u003ci\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA novel of post-collegiate literary ambition, slippery storytelling, and a perfectly Pninian ending. * Vanity Fair *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Resort\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Lipstein's almost perfectly plotted debut novel on a topic - creative envy and artistic theft - that tastes like catnip to many readers of literary fiction . . . has one of the best endings in recent memory... \u003cb\u003eYou'll think about \u003ci\u003eLast Resort\u003c\/i\u003e for weeks after you read the last pages\u003c\/b\u003e. * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant morality tale\u003c\/b\u003e about what happens when a person refuses to learn from their mistakes, all the way down to the final scene, which \u003cb\u003ehad me laughing out loud and punching the air\u003c\/b\u003e. * Vulture *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a moral drama about ambition and authorship that's \u003cb\u003eas funny and fast-paced as it is sharp and cutting\u003c\/b\u003e. * Monocle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA blissfully wicked work of art\u003c\/b\u003e... 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Record labels, movie studios, book publishers, newspapers, and many authors rage that those who share music, video, text, and images over the Internet are âstealingâ their property. By contrast, copyright industry critics celebrate digital technologyâs potential to make the universe of movies, music, books, and art accessible anytime and anywhere â and to empower individuals the world over to express themselves by sharing and remixing those works. These critics argue that excessive copyright enforcement threatens that promise and stifles creativity.In Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know, Neil Weinstock Netanel explains the concepts needed to understand the heated debates about copyright law and policy. He identifies the combatants, unpacks their arguments, and illuminates what is at stake in the debates over copyrightâs present and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroductionI.  The Battles over Copyright: OverviewII.  Copyright - What It Is and What It Is NotIII.  Why Have Copyright Law?IV.  Fair UseV.  Current ControversiesVI.  Copyright in the International ArenaVII.  \"The Next Great Copyright Act\": How Might Copyright Be Reformed?AcknowledgementsNotesFurther ReadingIndex","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732891709783,"sku":"9780199941162","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199941162.jpg?v=1719998834"},{"product_id":"the-business-of-being-a-writer-9780226393162","title":"The Business of Being a Writer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBusiness of Being a Writer offers the business education writers need but so rarely receive. 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This book will be a very welcome resource for students of the history of academic publishing, as well as anyone with an interest in the history of science as it tracks with the origins of the institution of the scientific journal.\" * Publishing Research Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through a rigorous examination of the role of scientific institutions in framing knowledge, Csiszar has provided a compelling account of why the scientific journal took the shape that it did. His book is ambitious, in command of its material, and full of detail. More importantly, by showing how science came to be entangled with a particular medium of communication, it constitutes a timely reminder that the history of ideas cannot be separated from the forms in which those ideas were embodied.\" * Victorian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Alex Csiszar’s brilliant new book on the scientific journal is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship on science and nineteenth-century print culture. It deserves to be placed alongside the other important monographs appearing in the last two decades that examine the intersection of the history of publishing with the history of science. . . . An immensely satisfying read. . . . By concentrating on how the elite scientific societies responded to the proliferation of commercial science journals [Csiszar] is able to provide a new big picture upon which historians of science can build effectively in the future.\" * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e“A scientific journal can make for dry reading; \u003ci\u003eThe Scientific Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, on the other hand, does not. Csiszar provides a fascinating account about how this particular genre came to have its current form and, most importantly, its overwhelming status. There are thought-provoking challenges to our assumptions about scientific communication on just about every page.” -- Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"This clever and absorbing history charts the coming into being and imminent passing away of one of the most important forms of scientific activity - journal publication. Stocked with fascinating tales of scientific authors' deeds and sufferings, and of publishers' market savvy and ingenious trickery, Csiszar shows that the allegedly novel and dramatic alliance between scientific writing and commercial interest is nothing new, and in fact dominated the original developments of scientific literature and its vagaries in earlier centuries. The book explains how the notion of a quick and cheap technological fix for any apparent trouble of public knowledge first gained ground and why its mythology so evidently survives. The book will be indispensable for anyone interested in the roots of trust in scientific facts and their authors, and the central role played by print media in the crisis of intellectual authority.\" -- Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\"Certain books are as valuable for what they reveal about our professional inheritance as for what they tell us about the history of science. This is one of those books. 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