{"id":2646,"date":"2011-05-14T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2011-05-14T17:35:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T23:35:24","slug":"walt-whitman-and-his-sock-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"Walt Whitman and His Sock Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been collecting links on writing and plan to toss them out piecemeal over the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <em>New York Times <\/em>piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/01\/books\/review\/how-writers-build-the-brand.html\">literary self-promotion from times past<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most revered of French novelists recognized the need for P.R. \u201cFor  artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed,\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balzac\">Balzac<\/a> observed in \u201cLost Illusions,\u201d his classic novel about literary  life in early 19th-century Paris. As another master, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stendhal\">Stendhal,<\/a> remarked  in his autobiography \u201cMemoirs of an Egotist,\u201d \u201cGreat success is not  possible without a certain degree of shamelessness, and even of  out-and-out charlatanism.\u201d Those words should be on the Authors Guild  coat of arms. . . .<\/p>\n<p>American authors did try to keep up. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Whitman\">Walt Whitman<\/a> notoriously wrote his  own anonymous reviews, which would not be out of place today on Amazon.  \u201cAn American bard at last!\u201d he raved in 1855. \u201cLarge, proud,  affectionate, eating, drinking and breeding, his costume manly and free,  his face sunburnt and bearded.\u201d But nobody could quite match the  creativity of the Europeans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/01\/books\/review\/how-writers-build-the-brand.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read it all<\/a>\u2014for ideas!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been collecting links on writing and plan to toss them out piecemeal over the next week. Here is a New York Times piece on literary self-promotion from times past: The most revered of French novelists recognized the need for P.R. \u201cFor artists, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,12],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-GG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8151,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8151","url_meta":{"origin":2646,"position":0},"title":"In Praise of Harvest Time","author":"Chas S. 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(Which all goes to show how publishing is changing, &c. &c., and I am glad not to have to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"teens\"","block_context":{"text":"teens","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=teens"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12202,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12202","url_meta":{"origin":2646,"position":2},"title":"Invoking Gods and Elves","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I am thinking of starting a series called \"What You Can Do with a Master's Degree,\" such as be a lecturer or start your own online school. 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(Is it really speaking only of men, as all the examples suggest?)Promiscuous Picasso, Lord Byron the philanderer, Dylan Thomas the boozy womaniser: these were not simply bonking Bohemians, it seems, but artists doing what their\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12320,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12320","url_meta":{"origin":2646,"position":4},"title":"&#8220;Why Women Need the Goddess:&#8221; The Passing of Carol Christ","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Carol P. Christ, PhD, a foremost figure in women's spirituality and Goddess religion, passed away five days ago (14 July 2021). She was born in 1945.((Most people said her surname as \"Krist.\"\u00a0 Not to be confused with Carol T. 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