![]() ![]() ![]() The book, PW wrote in its starred review, "follows the encounter between Mark Stroman, a racist ex-con in Dallas who went on a killing spree targeting men he wrongly thought were Arabs after 9/11, and Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi-born convenience-store clerk who was shot by Stroman but survived." It is, our reviewer said, "an affecting story of forgiveness and redemption" centered around "the author’s penetrating portraits of the two men." The book has sold nearly 15,000 copies in all print formats at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Giridharadas will serialize the first two chapters of his 2014 book, The True American: Murder and Mystery in Texas, in his newsletter, The.Ink, which goes out, he said, to an audience of "tens of thousands" of free subscribers and a smaller list of paid subscribers. ![]() ![]() Still, Substack provides authors-the latest of whom is Anand Giridharadas, an editor-at-large for Time, political analyst for MSNBC, and former New York Times correspondent-with some interesting options upon which to capitalize. The subscription e-newsletter platform Substack has already made its mark on the media business, but will it do the same for book publishing? Authors including Elle Griffin, John McWhorter, Maggie Stiefvater, and Matt Taibbi use the service to serialize new books or publish short stories exclusive to their newsletter audiences, but to date, the platform is still only dipping its toes into the book business. ![]()
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