Met @nelly_mo today. The first concert I ever went to was the st. lunatics & @cashmoney. He was the coolest. (at The Varick Room at TriBeCa Cinemas)
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Met @nelly_mo today. The first concert I ever went to was the st. lunatics & @cashmoney. He was the coolest. (at The Varick Room at TriBeCa Cinemas)

austinkleon: How Writers Build the Brand - NYTimes.com It’s always comforting to be reminded that literary whoring — I mean, self-marketing — has been practiced by the greats. The most revered of French novelists recognized the need for P.R. “For artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed,” Balzac observed in “Lost Illusions,” his classic novel about literary life in early 19th-century Paris. As another master, Stendhal, remarked in his autobiography “Memoirs of an Egotist,” “Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and even of out-and-out charlatanism.” Terrific read.
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austinkleon:

How Writers Build the Brand - NYTimes.com

It’s always comforting to be reminded that literary whoring — I mean, self-marketing — has been practiced by the greats.

The most revered of French novelists recognized the need for P.R. “For artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed,” Balzac observed in “Lost Illusions,” his classic novel about literary life in early 19th-century Paris. As another master, Stendhal, remarked in his autobiography “Memoirs of an Egotist,” “Great success is not possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and even of out-and-out charlatanism.”

Terrific read.

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