What’s the difference between burning a book after its published and telling someone you disagree with politically that you don’t want them to publish a book?

None. This guy is truly an ass.

Has Mr. Egan published any books?

He’s jealous because a “walking brainstem” out shined his own pathetic existence.

Mr. Egan’s column is an opening volley in class warfare. A rare admission of what his type in the media have always acted on but never expressed. Less than twenty years ago his sentiments would have been met with an overwhelming cry of “Die yuppie scum!”

He flagrantly told Joe, and people like him, to stick to the toil of their own class. How dare he invoke Orwell to make that kind of statement? It’s disgusting.

Legends in their minds?

Well put. That about pegs every journalist I know.

I like the way he slanted the article as if by JTP getting a book published then he would be taking food out of the mouth of some “real” writer, not a GASP! toliet plunger! LOL. Go snake that line, and leave the writing to the real writers! There’s writers starving in the village, and people like you are using up the book writng quota for the year! What a pompous little goober. Hey, jerkwad, write your own book, get over your petty self.

If society’s choice was to do away with all the plumbers or all the wise-ass [alleged] columnists, who do you suppose they would choose?

And, is it just me, or have ‘journalists’ [electronic and print] positioned themselves to be celebrities?
[Legends in their minds?]

If the publishing industry was actually based on the quality of the writing than I suspect Joe shouldn’t be published. But that is not what the industry is about. It is about making money.

Joe should write if he wants to write. I just wish the publishers would be more discriminating in what get’s published. But that is not Joe’s fault. If he can make money writing crap, more power to him.

He’s jealous because Joe’s book is 1) bound to sell pretty well because of the notoriety and 2) likely to be better than anything this dolt could cobble together.

And these idiots gave Palin crap for being a book burner. What’s the difference between burning a book after its published and telling someone you disagree with politically that you don’t want them to publish a book?

And by the way, in the modern era of publishing, there’s no reason for any truly good novelist to go unpublished. There’s e-books which cost next to nothing to publish. Amazon has a self-publishing service.