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02338aam a22003978i 4500 001 B8964D5425A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211005010046 008 210629s2021 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021027274 020 $a 183976385X 020 $a 9781839763854 035 $a (OCoLC)1229028552 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3365 M297 2021 100 1 $a McGurl, Mark, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Everything and less : $b the novel in the age of Amazon / $c Mark McGurl. 263 $a 2110 264 1 $a London ; $b Verso, $c 2021. 300 $a 1 volume ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Authorship. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Publishing. 610 20 $a Amazon.com (Firm) $x History. 650 0 $a Self-publishing. 650 0 $a Electronic publishing. 776 08 $i Online version: $a McGurl, Mark, 1966- $t Everything and less $d London ; New York : Verso, 2021 $z 9781839763878 $w (DLC) 2021027275 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802015604.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220217011208.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211022010058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B8964D5425A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search