NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller Had Two Book Contracts, Finished Neither
Writing a book is not the same as writing for a daily paper. It exercises completely different “muscles” in your brain (we hear) and takes a lot longer.
That may be why Bill Keller is still paying back an advance to Simon and Schuster for a book he never completed.
He never completed two, actually, he says in Sunday’s magazine.
In 2002, the NYT published an essay by writer Joseph Epstein that cited a survey saying 81 percent of Americans “feel they have a book in them.”
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