Literature Bailout?
Wall Street bailout, car industry bailout, porn bailout – ? Government support for analog to digital media (aka TV) conversion? Wait a minute – where the heck was the bailout for literary publications when we’ve been bemoaning for years the steady decline in reading in this nation, and then the recent postal rate hikes that hammered the smaller subscription publications, and how about the ongoing independent bookstore closings (and now chain bookstore closings), and layoffs in the publishing business, and…and…?