Big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support
(persuasion.community)
Literary fiction is dead. Or, so we’ve been told. Perhaps we can agree it lies bleeding.
Literary fiction is dead. Or, so we’ve been told. Perhaps we can agree it lies bleeding.
Magical Thinking: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (2011)
(laphamsquarterly.org)
Fiction rarely influences politics anymore, either because fewer people read it or because it has fewer things to say. Yet novels have affected America in large and unsubtle ways: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle shaped the contours of the national current no less profoundly than our periodic wars and bank panics.
Fiction rarely influences politics anymore, either because fewer people read it or because it has fewer things to say. Yet novels have affected America in large and unsubtle ways: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle shaped the contours of the national current no less profoundly than our periodic wars and bank panics.
The Program, my fiction podcast launched on HN, 5 years and 1M downloads later
(programaudioseries.com)
The world survived for another year, and The Program audio series with it.
The world survived for another year, and The Program audio series with it.
Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming
(theguardian.com)
Anyone who has been in a bookshop in the last few years will have noticed that Japanese fiction is experiencing an extraordinary boom.
Anyone who has been in a bookshop in the last few years will have noticed that Japanese fiction is experiencing an extraordinary boom.
Neal Stephenson's New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy
(nytimes.com)
“Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.
“Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.
There is no antimimetics division V2
(qntm.org)
In fact I have two publishing deals. Some of you may have already seen this news, and you may be able to guess where this is going.
In fact I have two publishing deals. Some of you may have already seen this news, and you may be able to guess where this is going.