How Julio Vincent Gambuto joined Medium, went viral, and wound up with a book deal
Shortly after “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting” was published, Gambuto was approached by a literary agent about turning the essay into a book. The result, “Please Unsubscribe, Thanks! How to Take Back Our Time, Attention, and Purpose in a World Designed to Bury Us In Bullshit,” was published earlier this month by Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster.
I talked to Gambuto about how he got started on Medium, what it’s like to go viral, and how he turned his post into a book. The result of our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows.
Jon Gluck: What were you doing before you got started on Medium?
Julio Vincent Gambuto: My background is in film, so I was working in television for a kids’ show on Nickelodeon, and then came back east to start a film company here in New York. Film is a long process. Although I was enjoying it, I was also frustrated by it because I had things I wanted to think about and talk about and sort of publicly interrogate. Medium became a great place to do that.
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