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03963aam a2200577 i 4500 001 CD23A6EC214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 160104s2016 caua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015050245 020 $a 0804799407 020 $a 9780804799409 020 $a 0804795126 020 $a 9780804795128 035 $a (OCoLC)932386004 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d WLU $d WAU $d YUS $d CHVBK $d VP@ $d BUB $d OCLCQ $d U3W $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a Z471 $b .H89 2016 082 00 $a 070.5 $2 23 100 1 $a Hungerford, Amy, $e author. 245 10 $a Making literature now / $c Amy Hungerford. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xiii, 199 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Post 45 520 $a "This book takes us into the social networks of contemporary literary culture, examining how small-scale presses, writers, book distributors, and editors make new fiction-and make a living-in a mass market indifferent to all but a tiny slice of the literature produced today. McSweeney's, the small San Francisco-based press founded by Dave Eggers, is the book's central subject, but the story of that press serves also as portal to broader networks of contemporary literary production, a network that requires not one person-like the famous Eggers-but thousands. How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making literature now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various conditions--including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition--affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read. Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears--and disappears--in contemporary American culture"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-188) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : writing from the rabbit hole -- Making literature now -- McSweeney's and the school of life -- Reading novels in the net -- GPS historicism -- How Jonathan Safran Foer made love -- On not reading DFW -- Afterword : present tense archive. 610 20 $a McSweeney's (Firm) 610 24 $a McSweeney's (Firm). 610 27 $a McSweeney's (Firm) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01786982 610 27 $a UmschulungswerkstaÌtten fuÌr Siedler und Auswanderer $g Bitterfeld $2 gnd 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $z United States. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $z United States. 650 0 $a Literature $x Appreciation $z United States. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States. 650 6 $a Livres $x Industrie $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature $x AppreÌciation $z EÌtats-Unis. 650 7 $a Book industries and trade. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836171 650 7 $a Books and reading. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836454 650 7 $a Literature $x Appreciation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999957 650 7 $a Publishers and publishing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01083463 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Literatur $2 gnd 650 7 $a Buchhandel $2 gnd 650 7 $a Buchproduktion $2 gnd 830 0 $a Post 45. 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724073359.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CD23A6EC214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search