Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon McGurl Mark
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon McGurl Mark How Amazon has changed literatureAs the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a…
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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon McGurl Mark
How Amazon has changed literatureAs the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in literature, with a confidence that rivals modernism. But if a novel gave usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel?
On the internet, all fiction becomes genre fiction, which is simply another way to predict customer satisfaction.With an eye on the longer history of the novel, this witty, acerbic book tells a story that connects Henry James to E.L. Its innovations have little to do with how the novel is written and more to do with how it's distributed online. James, Faulkner and Hemingway to contemporary romance, science fiction and fantasy writers.
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