Bookless In Baghdad: Reflections On Writing And Writers - Plot & Excerpts
chortled my friend the literary agent. “Apparently, eighty-one percent of Americans feel they should write a book.” She wasn't kidding. Eighty-one percent of the citizenry of the land of the free and the home of the brave think they have a book in them. That's according to a survey of 1,006 adult Americans commissioned by the Jenkins Group, a Michigan publishing services firm. Having just established, in the course of researching the article preceding this one, that a staggering percentage of Americans are in fact functionally illiterate, I was astonished to discover the even more staggering percentage that saw themselves as pregnant with best-sellers just waiting to be born. This should not in fact have surprised me, because I've met Carlos the doorman. Carlos presides, in green uniform and peaked cap, over the reception desk at one of New York City's tonier addresses, the kind where all visitors have to be announced but there is no sign crassly telling them so. One day the friend I was visiting happened to mention to Carlos that I was an author.
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