{"id":30058,"date":"2012-09-01T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/you-cant-tell-your-book-without-a-subtitle.html"},"modified":"2012-09-01T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T15:24:29","slug":"you-cant-tell-your-book-without-a-subtitle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/you-cant-tell-your-book-without-a-subtitle.html","title":{"rendered":"You can&#39;t tell your book without a subtitle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with the article that subtitles have gone out of fashion on <i>fictional<\/i> books &#8212; at most you might see <i>The Messershmann Papers &#8211; A Novel<\/i>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But they remain rampant (if not increasing) in <i>non<\/i>-fiction. You simply can&#39;t publish a book <i>The Sinking Ship<\/i> without including something like <i>&#8230; How America&#39;s Obsession with Cheez Whiz is Destroying Our Foreign Policy Options in Latin America<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And then you have to cite the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>I guess maybe it&#39;s because for fiction, we just need or want a mood or impression from the title. \u00a0For non-fiction, we want a catchy\u00a0main title, but also info at a glance on what the book&#39;s actually all about (in case it&#39;s not clear that it&#39;s about Cheez-Whiz and Latin America, vs. the sinking of <i>The Lusitania<\/i> vs. an indictment of Russian oversight of Internet memes).<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mentalfloss.com%2Fblogs%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F10%2Fcopperfield-189x300.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/69854'>10 Famous Books With Lesser-Known Subtitles &#8211; Mental Floss<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t10 Lesser-Known SubtitlesA lot of the time, we end up dropping subtitles entirely. You may not have even realized these 10 books had them.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/HgSzy4A6D9b' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with the article that subtitles have gone out of fashion on fictional books &#8212; at most you might see The Messershmann Papers &#8211; A Novel. \u00a0 But they remain rampant (if not increasing) in non-fiction. You simply can&#39;t publish a book The Sinking Ship without including something like &#8230; How America&#39;s Obsession with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/01\/you-cant-tell-your-book-without-a-subtitle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You can&#39;t tell your book without a subtitle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41773,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/21\/genre-vs-literary-fiction.html","url_meta":{"origin":30058,"position":0},"title":"Genre vs Literary Fiction","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Apr-14 9:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Is a false dichotomy. 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