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#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 26, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 26, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 25, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:23 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:15 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Wrote about the good(ish) old days thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
Screenshot from The Baffler essay: "But my own 2013 had seen abundance of a kind: publicists were sending me books, and editors were asking me to write about them online. One of these was Tao Lin's novel Taipei, which I read at Max's behest and excoriated in a review just as mannered and insufferable, in its own way, as the novel itself. The internet, hungry for invective, clicked on this more than anything I ever wrote again, as far as I know. One man published a scathing line-by-line takedown of the review on Tumblr. Another published an aloof, mildly disdainful notice on Gawker. Tao Lin himself pointed out, fairly, that I had quoted from the advanced copy, too green to understand how much the words in a galley could change. I read these texts-which I pictured as flying westward from New York, the site of all culturally relevant opinion as well as the affectless bacchanals of the novel I had just shat on-at the desk of my day job formatting architectural proposals in San Francisco. I took my very first smart phone out to my lunch break and scrolled through Twitter reactions while smoking cigarettes behind a dry cleaner, my stomach in a knot. It was all happening." Second screenshot from The Baffler: "Recalling this era on an Amtrak in 2023 felt like contemplating the cave paintings of Lascaux. The person who wrote the wounding Tumblr post now worked at The New Yorker; we cordially followed each other on Twitter, which Elon Musk had bought and was swiftly turning into a stagnant Nazi pond. Tumblr had been acquired by Yahoo, which was acquired by Verizon, which sold Tumblr to Automattic, which entered talks to sell its users' data to Midjourney and OpenAI. Gawker, forced into bankruptcy by Peter Thiel as punishment for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape, had shuttered after its bargain-basement acquisition by millionaire Bryan Goldberg; in a few months, the Gawker writer who had written about my review would publish a stunning cover story in New York about his chronic illness and the collapse of the media industry. Tao Lin had weathered both my review and an abuse allegation, moved on to publish other well-received books, and cured himself, he reported, of autism."
January 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 19, 2026 at 12:15 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 18, 2026 at 4:04 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 18, 2026 at 3:35 AM
mistressclarissa.bsky.social
Subs please don’t conflate being very visible on social media, with being a good Dominatrix. Many talented people are too busy and are not natural self publicists. They are more concerned with high quality lived D/s experiences than entertaining people online for free.I suggest you read websites.
January 17, 2026 at 2:32 PM
gpwriter.bsky.social
#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 17, 2026 at 5:43 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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#booksky #books #PR #publicrelations #read #work #reading #readers #worklife #jobhell #ebooks
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 16, 2026 at 6:59 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:56 AM
nancygorgon.bsky.social
I read it for entertainment purposes only. I don't watch real housewives. I need some trash. And I like to try to figure out the old Hollywood ones that are written like riddles. But I do assume half of it is from publicists, and I don't assume any of it is necessarily true.
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Anybody can scroll the field and sneer at the rhetorical crimes of booze execs and publicists from the year that was. This edition is free to read for all: www.fingers.email/p/neo-hedoni...
"english motherfucker do you speak it" scene from pulp fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFrgIrWmTeY caption up top reads: when booze execs start talking about a new-to-world innovation that's winning mindshare with multicultural lda zillennials thanks to a white-space flavor proposition
January 12, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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No. 3 - Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo tr. by Douglas J. Weatherfordq (@groveatlantic.bsky.social)

The ‘everyone who heard the Velvet Underground album started a band’ for the LatAm Boom but s/b viewed on its own as masterpiece of surrealism

Excerpts from Harvard Review

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Cover of Grove’s new translation of Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo Even when it is not being framed in terms of the “Boom,” critics and publicists keep defining Pedro Páramo through reductive comparisons to other texts. The back cover of the new UK edition quotes a line from the Guardian that describes the novella as “Wuthering Heights located in Mexico and written by Kafka.” Pedro Páramo deserves better. It has sold over a million copies in English and is being adapted by Netflix. It should be read on its own terms. Pedro Páramo, whose name means “rock” and “barren plain,” is a harsh, feudal lord. A womanizer and the de facto owner of the fertile land around Comala, he is associated with fecundity—yet his life and afterlife are defined by fatalities. There is the death of his father, killed by mistake at a wedding; the death of his rapist son, thrown off his horse; and the many deaths for which Pedro Páramo is himself responsible. These include Juan Preciado, “just about everyone who attended” the wedding where his father was shot, the concubine who dies in childbirth, the father of his forced bride Susana San Juan, and Susana San Juan herself. As revenge for the lack of mourning shown to Susana San Juan by the villagers, Pedro Páramo starts a famine that reflects the barrenness of his name: —I’ll cross my arms and Comala will die of hunger. And that’s what he did. Pedro Páramo is a nonlinear story written in short scenes that resemble snapshots. It is polyphonic—told by Juan Preciado, at least one third-person narrator, and characters who resemble a chorus. It is a story of archetypes—an everyman, a tyrant, and a son searching for a father. It regularly alludes to Greek tragedy, particularly Sophocles’s Oedipus the King. As in his short story collection The Burning Plain (1953), Rulfo explores themes of land and displacement that evoke the history of Mexico and of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. Rulfo’s description and dialogue are spare, casting an uncanny atmosphere over Comala and the text. Juan Preciado perceives that “everything was completely quiet, the only sound a moth falling through the air and the whispering of silence.” Rulfo’s voice, particularly in the scenes set in the “underworld,” can be laconic, mythic, and surreal.
January 12, 2026 at 6:06 AM
gpwriter.bsky.social
Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 12, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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Client tantrums are a work hazard for #publicists…read more about the business magazine photo shoot meltdown in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
“Being a publicist is truly a thankless job…” So begins the latest novel by controversial indie author George Pappas, “ ” a frank and satirical look into the dark side of the public relations indust...
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January 10, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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#Publicists get no respect…not even #RodneyDangerfield could have imagined it… explore more in my #satirical #indie #novel #LifeinPublicRelationsHell
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Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1
Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1 - Kindle edition by Pappas, George . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Life In Public Relations Hell: Strange Tales, Anecdotes, and Salvos From A Life in Public Relations Hell, Vol. 1.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM