{"product_id":"9781839763854-everything-and-less-the-novel-in-the-age-of-amazon","title":"Everything And Less The Novel In The Age Of Amazon","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: As 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. But if a novel gave us Amazon. com what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less acclaimed critic Mark Mc Gurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in literature with a confidence that rivals modernism. Its innovations have little to do with how the novel is written and more to do with how it's distributed online. 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. James Faulkner and Hemingway to contemporary romance science fiction and fantasy writers. Reclaiming several works of self - published fiction from the gutter of complete critical disregard it stages a copernican revolution in how we understand the world of letters: it's the stuff of high literature Colson Whitehead Don De Lillo and Amitav Ghosh that revolve around the star of countless unknown writers trying to forge a career by untraditional means Adult Baby Diaper Lover erotica being just one fortuitous route. In opening the floodgates of popular literary expression as never before the Age of Amazon shows a democratic promise as well as what it means when literary culture becomes corporate culture in the broadbest but also deepest and most troubling sense.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Everything And Less The Novel In The Age Of Amazon\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Mcgurl Mark\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Verso Books\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781839763854\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 336 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Publishing Industry \u0026amp; Book Trade","brand":"Mcgurl Mark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55960887787825,"sku":"IN-G-9781839763854","price":33.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781839763854-everything-and-less-the-novel-in-the-age-of-amazon","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}