“You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure…” — Robert Gottlieb

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.