I’m going to twist the lid off a well-kept secret: Great new American writing isn’t dead, it’s just hiding. While mainstream publishers piss and moan about literary (it used to be called quality) fiction’s flagging audience, their independent counterparts are experiencing an explosive rebirth, where thrilling new writing is being published practically every week. It’s a renaissance1 of extraordinary proportions. But what’s that? You haven’t heard? Of course you haven’t, because practically no one is writing about it.
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