HeyJaredDouglas McLennan
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Creative Markets are being Swamped (opens the original)
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Last week Publishers Weekly reported that the number of books published with ISBN numbers in the US in 2025 had jumped by 32 percent over the previous year to more than 4 million titles. The increase was led by self-published works, for which the number of print and e-books … soared 38.7% to more than 3.5 million from 2.5 million in 2024… The number of traditionally published books released in 2025 rose 6.6%, to 642,242, from 602,428 in 2024. That’s an enormous increase, even accounting for the
Culture: The Real Costs of being Real (opens the original)
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We collected 127 stories on ArtsJournal last week. Here’s what I learned. A couple of weeks ago, I got a PR pitch from a theatre. It praised my writing in Diacritical, not just mentioning particular posts but engaging with the ideas and building on them. It was, I admit, flattering. Was it possible, the writer asked, that we could talk, and she could show me the exciting things her theatre was doing? We are aligned. But there was something just slightly off about the pitch. It was a little too g
AJ Chronicles: When Selling Out Is No Longer a Business Model (opens the original)
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A Broadway producer told The Hollywood Reporter that big Broadway musicals are “not quite find[ing] the audience that can sustain them at the level that they need to be sustained because the costs have gone up so much.” This in the same week that the Public Theater’s Oskar Eustis announced he’ll leave the Public in 2028 and contended that the American nonprofit theatre movement is over, with “absolutely zero consensus on whether theater should exist as a nonprofit performing arts field or whethe
AJ Chronicles: So What’s Working in this Arts Bear Market? (opens the original)
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This week we collected 139 stories. Here’s what I learned: It’s difficult to deny that something structural is failing the arts. Week after week we’ve been documenting a collapse across the sector that transcends any simple bad management. The entire infrastructure is collapsing. And yet, there are also success stories. Many of them. So this week I want to look at some of those successes and see if there are commonalities. Tate Modern’s Frida Kahlo retrospective recently broke the museum’s all-t
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