Danielle Steel's Production Function

https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-sublime-danielle-steel/

by gHeadphone • 4 years ago

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cafard• 4 years ago

The closer one comes to Steel, the clearer it becomes that the madness of her being is the madness of our times: working 20 hours each day, she has become vertiginous sublimity itself.

Whose is "ours"? On the rare occasions that I have worked more than twelve hours in a day, it has been for distinctly pedestrian stuff.

pessimizer• 4 years ago

Upper-middle class professional overachievers who have their dream jobs.

de6u99er• 4 years ago

... usually found dead behind their desk by co-workers on Monday mornings.

lurquer• 4 years ago

Mandela?

Wasn’t it ‘Danielle Steele’?

teddyh• 4 years ago

It was Remington Steele.

dave_sullivan• 4 years ago

100%

dwighttk• 4 years ago

“The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock“ is the article title. Tyler Cowen linked to it with “Danielle Steel’s Production Function”

telesilla• 4 years ago

"His eyes were cobalt and intensely present", the article's author wrote, summoning Danielle Steel's style.

I'm thrown back my childhood, reading whatever books my mother left open around the house. Don't do the same for your kids with these novels, there's not much in them to be remembered.

actionfromafar• 4 years ago

Kids have phones these days and don’t even notice books, or anything else really.

Danielle Steel's Production Function

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