“…it is in the grand tradition that a small, friendly 27-year-old woman named Adrian Brune set up shop about two months ago to sell her wares at Times Square. Her “shop” is a very common one for subway commerce, consisting of a small cardboard box, behind which she sits with her back against the wall. But what differentiates Ms. Brune from her competitors are her unique handmade products, advertised in a hand-lettered sign on the sides of the box.”
“Writer w/ good short stories for sale: $2 each,” it says, adding in parentheses, “Masters from Columbia; bad economy.”
“In other words, Ms. Brune is a player in what the writer Terry Southern once called the “quality lit game,” but instead of trying to sell her work through publishers, she has decided to go right to the reading public. This would be a brave decision, if it were one she made herself. In actual fact, she says, it was made for her by the publishers.” (from The New York Times)
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