Everything and less : the novel in the age of Amazon

McGurl, Mark 1966- (author.).

Summary: "In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of literary experimentation in an unlikely location: in the realms of self-publishing created by Amazon. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the abyss of critical disregard, McGurl offers a Copernican revolution in the world of letters: rather than giving central importance to the critically lionized highbrows--Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante, and Amitav Ghosh, among others--he discovers that their fiction orbits countless unknown authors forging a career through untraditional means"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781839763854 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: London : Verso, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface: Bezos as novelist -- Introduction: Retail therapy -- Fiction as a service -- What Is multinational literature? Amazon all over the world -- Generic love, or, The realism of romance -- Unspeakable conventionality : the perversity of the Kindle -- World-scaling : literary fiction in the genre system -- Surplus fiction : the undeath of the novel -- Afterword: Inside the box.