“If this is the valley of destruction, then many publishers can begin to glimpse distant sunlit uplands. People haven’t stopped reading fiction or non-fiction, or paying for what they read. On the contrary, via both Kindle and printed page, they’re reading as much as ever.”
Tag: 10.02.11
Future Shock [SLIDESHOW]: What Yesterday’s Movies Tell Us About Tomorrow, And Today
If the future doesn’t look hopeful to you now, you’re not alone: Filmmakers of the past and present show us grim dystopias, with the occasional perk of a space-age shoe.
Is The Realist Novel Dead? Not In This Chat Between Colm Toibin & Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides: “We know from our Derrida that narrative is exhausted and character a fraud. We know that we might be ‘mocked’ for persisting in writing realist fiction. But we keep on doing it! Because we think there is something about reality, and especially about human consciousness, that can be accurately described and that the novel is the best way to do it.”