Preface -- Saints and critics -- Therapy for the novel -- Slow philosophy -- Publishing genius -- The writer who tried to save the world -- The end of American literature -- Digital fatigue -- The three percent -- The corporate showroom -- A class of his own -- Bootleg scholarship -- 3d printed man -- What's in a name? -- Burn this book -- Future readers -- The economics of book reviews -- Blurbs in the post-truth era -- Starfucker -- The fate of the book -- Book machines -- DIY -- The boulevard of broken dreams -- Welcome to the machine -- Crisis? What crisis? -- How to be a critic -- The end of book country -- There is no success like failure -- Hardback justice -- Listenin' to the breeze -- Who wrote the last letter? -- A sense of the past -- The bottom line -- Don't fear the reaper -- Experimental theory -- If on a winter's night a computer -- The lost ones -- Afterword by Steve Tomasula.
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