Preface: Bezos as Novelist -- Introduction: Retail Therapy -- Fiction as a Service -- What Is Multinational Literature? Amazon All Over the World -- Generic Love, or, The Realism of Romance -- Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle -- World-Scaling: Literary Fiction in the Genre System -- Surplus Fiction: The Undeath of the Novel -- Afterword: Inside the Box.
Summary:
"In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of literary experimentation in an unlikely location: in the realms of self-publishing created by Amazon. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the abyss of critical disregard, McGurl offers a Copernican revolution in the world of letters: rather than giving central importance to the critically lionized highbrows-Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante, and Amitav Ghosh, among others-he discovers that their fiction orbits countless unknown authors forging a career through untraditional means"-- Provided by publisher.
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