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This author appeared at the 2009 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Dwight Garner
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements features more than 400 vintage book ads – startling and strange, beautiful and funny – that together reveal a kind of secret history of America's literary culture over the last century. New York Times book critic Dwight Garner brings together original ads for classic books – On the Road, Invisible Man, Silent Spring, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,Lolita, and dozens of others – at a time when they were simply books, not yet icons. These ads capture many authors – such as Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Hunter S. Thompson – before their careers were assured, before their personas had hardened into caricature. In his introduction, Garner explains the changing styles of book advertising; explores the cross-pollination between literature and the world of advertising, in which many writers – Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Elmore Leonard, and James Patterson among them – worked before publishing their first books; and makes a convincing case that these vintage ads are important and lasting literary documents. Garner is a daily book critic for The New York Times. He worked as senior editor at The New York Times Book Review from 1999 to 2008, and before that was books editor of Salon. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Slate, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere; he is at work on a biography of James Agee. He lives in Garrison, New York, with his wife and two children.
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