Everything and Less av Mark McGurl

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<b><b>National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist<br><br>Best Book of Fall (<i>Esquire</i>) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (<i>Lit Hub</i>)<br><br><b>What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?</b></b></b><br><br>Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In <i>Everything and Less</i>, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl explores this new world where writing is no longer categorized as high or lowbrow, literature or popular fiction. <br><br>Charting a course spanning from Henry James to E. L. James, McGurl shows that contemporary writing has less to do with writing per se than with the manner of its distribution. This consumerist logic—<i>if you like this, you might also like</i> ...—has reorganized the  fiction universe so that literary prize-winners sit alongside fantasy, romance, fan