MY FIRST BOOK COMES OUT?!!!!!!!!!! It’s really encouraging to know that, if I die in a car crash or another freak accident a mere 5.5 hours from now, it’ll be fine, because I’ll die a published author. Here’s hoping I won’t die until then! (I mean, here’s hoping that I won’t die for years, but if I have to go soon, let it at least be after my book hits the stores.)
Happy to have gotten my copy and congrats. Thinking about your preference that the audience focus on your writing, not your spoken words, I wonder if you’ve seen this (h/t Gwern): A transition from an author’s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.Samuel Johnson; The Rambler, No. 14 (1750-05-05)1
Just read your review of ‘Morning After the Revolution.' So impressive, so well written. Hope to read more of you.
https://us.macmillan.com/tours/becca-rothfeld-all-things-are-too-small/
Just thought you should know.
Link does not work. Spent 3-5 minutes noodling around looking for Boston dates. No luck! So much for big publishing’s huge marketing departments!
Alas, I think this is because the tour is over now! Boston was last week :(
Happy to have gotten my copy and congrats. Thinking about your preference that the audience focus on your writing, not your spoken words, I wonder if you’ve seen this (h/t Gwern): A transition from an author’s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.Samuel Johnson; The Rambler, No. 14 (1750-05-05)1
Purchased the book 🫡 !! So very excited to see you next week.
Can't wait to read it. Congrats, Becccccccccaaaaaaaa!!!