{"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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"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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We have taken 10 of these interviews and put them together with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1116,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1116","url_meta":{"origin":2646,"position":4},"title":"Gallimaufry with Stamps on It","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00b6 The US Postal Service threatens to cut Saturday delivery, blaming the economy. 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