{"product_id":"9781449087685","title":"MADISON AVENUE, OHIO, 1970-: Writing my way through \"What's an agency like Howard Swink Advertising doing in Marion, Ohio?\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll the best ads and commercials are written in high-powered advertising agencies in New York City, right? In fancy offices perched high on the gleaming towers of Manhattan, right? By mythical creatures just returning from three martini lunches, right?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWrong, wrong, wrong. And once more, just for good measure.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOnce upon a time I was fired. Again.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eI’d been writing ads for agencies in Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis and New\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYork. For almost twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThen one day I found myself writing them in the sometimes sleepy, sometimes far from sleepy little city of Marion, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHow I got there, what I did there, and all the rest of it makes a rather interesting story. At least to me. Although Gertrude Stein famously said,\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“There’s no there there,” don’t believe it for a minute. She sure wasn’t talking about Marion, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRead on, gentle reader, read on...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143126401264,"sku":"9781449087685","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781449087685_p0.jpg?v=1763831490","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781449087685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}