The late American novel writers on the future of books: novel

✍ Scribed by Jeff Martin

• Publisher: Soft Skull Press;Counterpoint, Distributed by Publishers Group West
• Year: 2018;2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 236 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1593763999

✦ Synopsis

The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison's phonograph has been reincarnated as the iPod. Celluloid went digital. But books, for the most part, have remained the same--until now. And while music and movies have undergone an almost Darwinian evolution, the literary world now faces a revolution, a sudden seismic change in the way we buy, produce, and, yes, read books.

Scholars, journalists, and publishers have turned their brains inside out in the effort to predict what lies ahead, but who better to comment on the future of the book than those who are driven to write them?

In The Late American Novel , Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee gather some of today's finest writers to consider the sea change that is upon them. Lauren Groff imagines an array of fantastical futures for writers, from poets with groupies to novelists as vending machines. Rivka Galchen writes about the figurative and literal death of paper. Joe Meno expounds upon th...