Jim Collins (2) (1953–)
Author of Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
For other authors named Jim Collins, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Jim Collins holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. A visiting professor of business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business, he is a management consultant. He has written several articles for the Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fortune magazine, California Management show more Review and Stanford Magazine. He is the co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies; Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Firm: Readings, Cases and Instructor's Manual; Beyond Entrepreneurship; and Great by Choice. He has also worked with Hewlett Packard and McKinsey & Co. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Jim Collins
Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (2010) 55 copies, 1 review
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Questions remain: is the emergence of feel-good, consumerist literary culture really new? What remains of literary culture that doesn't fit into the Oprah/Booker/Book Lust mold? What about the formative effect of high school English class on literary reading? Do readers of genre fiction relate to books in a different way than devotees of the literary or faux-literary? And where does gender fit into all this (fluffy chick lit versus serious Booker winner as gendered categories)? I wish Collins had posed these questions explicitly, but as it was, I was left with plenty of food for thought.… (more)