Download or read book The Belles Lettres Papers written by Charles Simmons and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThe everyday insanity of life at a fictional literary review/divDIV The journal Belles Lettres has a long and storied history, which is what enticed young editor Frank Page over its threshold in the first place. But Frank did not anticipate the infighting, backstabbing, and utter oddity that are all business as usual at the respected magazine. Still, nothing can match Frank’s thrill at discovering a new literary phenom./divDIV But the book industry seems to be on the decline. Integrity is going extinct as conglomerate giants gobble up smaller organs and trample innovation and daring into the muck of commerciality. At least Frank’s position gives him a front-row seat at the publishing world’s fight of the century, as deposed editorial icon Jonathan Margin takes on self-serving corporate overseer Newbold Press in an ink-splattered battle to the death./div/div