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239 INDEX Abrams, 56 adaptation, 57, 64, 127, 183 addiction: James Frey and, 189–92; history of, 179–81; and marginality, 185–86; memoirs of, 187–88; in A Million Little Pieces, 157, 200–204; War on Drugs, 221–22n8, 222n10 Adorno, Theodor, 17, 62 aesthetic, 18, 20, 46, 57, 158–59, 187 affect, 33, 36, 135, 139, 163, 182–83, 189, 212–13 Afghan, 71, 167, 173 agency, 18, 30, 138, 150, 172 Albom, Mitch, 9 alienation, 87, 140, 149, 175 Alito, Sam, 205 Allan Publishing, 128 Allende, Isobel, 132 Al Qaeda, 159, 205 al-Shayk, Hanan, 170 Althusser, Leo, 30, 118 Amazon.com, 82–83, 85, 130–31, 146, 220n16, 220n17 Another Story Bookstore, 92–93 Arbor, Louise, 48 Archambault Books, 84, 91 Astor, Mary, 1, 7 Athill, Diana, 58 Atwood, Margaret, 62, 94 Audreys Books, 97–101, 105 Auschwitz, 189 authenticity, 20, 25, 83, 162, 175, 178, 195, 197 authorship, 44 autobiographical pact, 22, 29, 151; and James Frey, 194–96; readers and, 24–26 autobiography: and confession, 4–6, 14–16, 30, 36, 135, 146, 161, 186, 190–91, 200–201, 210; in The Confessions, 6; critical approaches to, 22–23; literary origins of, 6; and memoir, 11–12, 221n2. See also auto/biography auto/biography: coaxing, 30, 184; definition, 215n1; popular texts and the field of, 157–59 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 19 Ballantine Books, 59, 125 Banco, Lindsay Michael, 187 bandes desinées, 163 INDEX 240 Bantam Books, 53, 125 Bareket, Mika, 96, 113, 218n16 Bashir, Harima, 184 B. Dalton, 81–82, 84 Beaty, Bart, 163, 165 Beauvoir, Simone de, 54 Beckham, David, 132 Bedford-Stuyvesant, 134–36, 138 Beeman, William O., 169 Benjamin, Walter, 20, 31, 59, 135, 162 Berlant, Lauren, 33, 36, 161–62, 179, 182, 192, 211, 213 Bernstein, Robert L., 125 Bertelsmann, 56, 64–66, 125 Bezos, Jeff, 82 big-box bookstore, 100, 218n3 biographer, 68 bisexual, 110 Blackwell, 77 Blanchot, Maurice, 18 Bleumer, Ria, 76, 102–3, 113–14, 119, 219n21 Book City, 84 book distribution, 27, 35, 38–39, 50–53, 55. See also bookstores Bookmark II, 88–90, 94, 97–98, 108–13, 117–18 Bookscan, 8, 36, 71 BookStats, 9, 36 bookstores, 38–39; and ambivalence about capitalism, 79; American history of, 78–84; Canadian history of, 84–86; chains of, 81–82; culture of, 78, 85–88, 114–17; and genre, 86–87; handselling in, 103, 105, 114–15; and maverick retailers, 81; narrative of decline concerning, 78–79, 218n4; use of rubrics, 36–37, 75, 77, 89, 106–107, 114, 131; shelving, 74–75, 77, 87, 89, 91, 96, 106–13, 117–18, 130–31; tactics of, 108–112. See also big-box bookstore; book distribution; retailing Book Warehouse, 99–101 Boswell, James, 31 Bouchard, Lucien, 91 Bourdain, Anthony, 122, 146–47 Bourdieu, Pierre, 26, 50 Britzman, Deborah, 184 Brooklyn (N.Y.), 134 Browning, James, 188 Bryson, Bill, 146 Budnarchuk, Sharon, 97–98, 100, 218n17 burqa, 167 Burroughs, Augusten, 9, 222n11 Burroughs, William S., 186–87, 189 Bush, George W., 35, 40, 126, 132, 146, 159–62, 172, 180–81, 198, 204–5, 207, 212, 222n18 Camus, Albert, 58 canon, 22, 158 capitalism, 5–6, 15–17, 31, 41, 74, 79–80, 119, 135, 137, 196, 198, 207 Capote, Truman, 124 Cartledge, Bruce, 91, 107, 218n8 cataloguing, 141 CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), 96 CBS, 65, 208 Cecchini, Toby, 122, 145–50 celebrity, 1, 3–4, 7, 9–10, 13, 16–17, 21, 31–32, 44, 57, 69–71, 126, 132–33, 146, 207–8 censorship, 59, 94, 138, 143, 150 ceremonials, 118 Cerf, Bennett, 63, 123–25 Certeau, Michel de, 106 Chanoff, David, 122, 134 Chapters-Indigo, 35, 38, 74–75, 84–88, 91–92, 95, 98–107, 114–18, 121, 137–38 Chatto, 125 Cheney, Dick, 159 Christie, Agatha, 128–29 CIA, 168 [3.144.96.159] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 03:56 GMT) INDEX 241 circulation, 4, 8, 27, 47, 50 citizenship, 32–33, 35–36, 40–41, 85–86, 139, 155–56, 159, 161–63, 174–78, 181–83, 197–98, 200–201, 204, 207, 209–13 Cleaver, Eldridge, 60 CNN, 160–61, 193 Cobley, Evelyn, 30 cocktail, 147, 150 collaboration, 48, 122, 185 commix, 157 Connaught, Katherine, 105, 115–17, 219n22 Constantino, Manuela, 163, 165 consumption, 15–18, 25, 36, 47, 73, 79–80, 167, 169, 182, 210 convention, 32, 199 convergence, 59, 63, 66, 159 corporation, 56, 61, 63–64, 66, 69, 80, 83, 90, 123, 126–28 cosmopolitan, 122...
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