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Perhaps because we only remember the good stuff? Or only the good suff & famous authors get reprinted.
Zadie Smith, writing in The Believer, offers future novelists some advice:
Zadie Smith has a terrific essay in the NY Review of Books on the future of the novel, or why realism - even when perfectly executed - has limitations:
Noted author Walter Mosley spoke on campus last night, and a spot opened up at the last minute for the dinner beforehand, so I got to spend an hour or so listening to him talk off-the-cuff in a small group.