Saul Degraw says:

Me1: The appropriate Yiddish phrase here is a Shanda fur die goyim. Basic translate: Don’t make us look bad in front of people who might have negative opinion about Jews and help prove their point.

Me3: I am not fully buying it. As far as I can tell, Jennifer Rubin loves being a self-proclaimed conservative pundit. On the other hand, Ezra Klein has gone out of his way to avoid words like liberal or progressive to define himself and prefers to market himself as a policy-oriented/technocratic wonk. Krugman has no problem calling himself a liberal. His on-line column is called “Consciousness of a Liberal.” There are plenty of lefty bloggers who have no time being identified with a phrase like left hook or with the left from Amanda Marcotte to Kevin Drum and beyond. Conor F and McArdle are mainstream but right-leaning writers with neutral blog/column names or no blog name at all. The thing about Conor F is that he loves talking/generalizing about his conservative Orange County upbringing. He writes general sentences about National Review reading grandfathers (note: My grandfather did not read the National Review. My grandfather was so Democratic that he hated the fact that Adlai Stevenson lost to Eisenhower, twice!!!) I am having a hard time coming up with a known blogger/columnist on the liberal side of things that talks about how they come from a long line of liberals.

Mo1: You would be surprised at how few books most authors sell even authors who can be considered successful. A good number for an author (especially in literary fiction) could be somewhere between 7,000 to 15,000 copies.

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/19/441459103/when-it-comes-to-book-sales-what-counts-as-success-might-surprise-you

According to Nielsen Bookscan, U.S. hardcover sales for five of the six Man Booker finalists were no more encouraging. (One of the books is not yet available here). Leading the pack, not surprisingly, was Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler, the only writer on the list with six-figure sales for her book A Spool of Blue Thread. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara had sales between 15,000 and 20,000. Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island sold 3,600 copies.

Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma’s debut novel, The Fishermen, sold just under 3,000 copies, which Charles says is not too bad.

“For an unknown writer?” he says. “Twenty-eight years old, no presence on social media. We’re not talking Mindy Kaling, here. He’s not sending his tweets to millions every day. Three thousand’s not bad.”

The authors that seem to do well have strong social media presences and/or are known for something else besides being a writer. Notice the Mindy Kaling example. Lena Dunham also works. A woman I know from college is a self-publishing or semi-self publishing romance writer (her husband works in finance). Every now and then I see how she interacts with her fans on social media and how other romance writers do. The answer is extremely personal and with maximum overshare. Every sickness, private moments that many might want to keep to themselves but it draws the fans in like heroin.

Mo4: Interesting

P5: Theoretically it could but you have plenty of districts where the Jungle primary also just makes the election about the center-left v. the left.Report