Kyle Harrison
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Where the Suckers Moon

Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story
Author
Randall Rothenberg
Published
1994
Pages
487
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: One account — Subaru’s — followed from pitch to campaign to firing, as a way of showing what an advertising agency actually does and why the relationship almost always ends badly.

Where I saw it: A reply to @WillManidis’s question on X, June 2, 2025 — “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/willmanidis/status/1929527399718269081

Connections

  • what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • Advertising · Marketing · Journalism — where this sits in the corpus.