By the time they finish all the road construction projects in #btv, everyone will have left the city and every downtown business will be bankrupt. But you know what? THEY'RE STILL ISSUING PARKING TICKETS! Fucking morons. #burlingtonvt.

Let the dead rest.

Interested (or know anyone who might be)? Write to me here: paul@bogaardspr.com.

I am looking to hire a part-time assistant. Previous assistants have learned quite a bit about the business supporting me (or so they have said). Indeed, my most recent assistant has just graduated into a full-time job in publishing. 1/2.

This morning’s public service announcement: Robert Caro’s The Power Broker is finally an eBook. You’re welcome. PS: The download takes seven days.

“’Thirty years, and it’s never leaked,’” Caro says. This particular shed was a floor sample, bought because he wanted it right away…'I said the following thing, always magic with people who work: ‘I can’t lose the days.’ She comes back and says, ‘You can have it tomorrow.’”.

Fantastic. Public safety is not a priority anymore. Instead, we are being asked to adapt to shootings, open drug use, random assaults, and a judicial system without consequences. Church Street used to be a magnet. Not anymore. #btv.#vermont.#burlington.

Another downtown shooting/murder in Burlington: “There is no wider danger to the public.” And city officials wonder why our public has lost confidence in their ability to manage downtown. "Continuing to adapt is one of the things that we're going to need to do." – The Mayor.1/2.

Nimble!.

"The spider, nimble in its web, waited for the unwary fly." - E.B. White (Charlotte's Web).

The cabin porch is an ideal place to observe the machinations of trade publishing playing out.

And then there were none (I mean, they are running out of people to fire over there).

THE CULLING, PART TWO, by @paulbogaards

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RT @BuddMishkinNYC: Next on Before The Cheering Started. Acclaimed novelist Lea Carpenter on mag pub life, her father and path to writing a….

Never a good thing to wake up to a headline with "journalism" and "extinction" in it. OK, back to TikTok.

And yeah, the Oscar for worst performance goes to the @latimes.

Brutal day for my colleagues in Los Angeles. Sending all of them strength, and thanking @Borisk for fighting the good fight. His unwavering support of books and authors and publishers has made LA a literary town once again.

I don't know how I worked in publishing for as long as I did.