Big Fiction

Auteur
Dan Sinykin is an assistant professor of English at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in quantitative theory and methods. He is the author of American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse (2020). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Dissent, and other publications.

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Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Mass Market (I): How Mass-Market Books Changed Publishing
2. Mass Market (II): How the Mass Market Won the World, Lost Its SoulThen Lost the World
3. Trade (I): How Women Resisted Sexism and Reinvented the Novel
4. Trade (II): How Literary Writers Embraced Genre
5. Nonprofits: How Rebels Found Funding and Rejected New York
6. Independents: How W. W. Norton Stayed Free and Housed the Misfits
   Conclusion
   Glossary of Publishing Figures
   Notes
   Index