Substack & Acquisition

the unusual backstory to Belt's latest screenshotted deal

A few weeks ago, I read an interview with an author of a new novel on Ross Barkan’s Substack. Barkan’s called the book “a significant work of literature” and “perhaps…the elusive great American novel for the twenty-first century.” Huh! I thought, and kept reading.

The author, John Pistelli, who had been publishing this novel in chapters on his newsletter