Publishing’s Little Secret: It’s All Gambling
Inside the Literary Casino That Publishes What You Read
In 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky published The Gambler, a manic little novel about a young Russian tutor entranced by the whirl of the roulette wheel the clickety-clack of the dancing ball. The drama turns on how a man can understand the the odds and yet still reach for his chips, how quickly he can lose his senses and succumb to his passions.
Dostoevsky, an u…
