John R. MacArthur discusses the perils and rewards of journalistic publishing in the United States in the electronic age.
In the second segment [14:00], Doris Betts, Rachel Davies, and Shannon Ravenel discuss the changing nature of publishing literary fiction in the early 1990s, as electronic publishing joined traditional printed-book publishing.
At the time of this interview, MacArthur was publisher of Harper’s Magazine. Betts was a novelist and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Davies was director of the Carolina Publishing Institute. Ravenel was editorial director of Algonquin Press.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
