VF's 'Bookopticon': A Meaningless Guide to Publishing a Maybe-Successful Book

Following today’s publication of Vanity Fair‘s decidedly unhandy interactive “Bookopticon” graphic, aspiring novelists and memoirists will have just as difficult a time navigating the New York publishing world as they did before.

The infographic shows little about how the book-publishing world actually operates, and its chief entertainment value is watching the animated arrows crawl across the screen — from And the Heart Says Whatever author Emily Gould through Gawker to “Yellow Journalism” all the way to William Randolph Hearst, for example.

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