Death of Literary Fiction

An excellent article by Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, on the death of literary fiction.  My favorite reader comment on the article:  “I’m somewhat fed-up with a wanna-be writer friend of mine. His mantra is: “I live an interesting life… the journey is the important thing.” Yet he’s over 30 and still lives at home with his parents. His “journey” is a journey to nowhere, yet that’s what he wants to write about. I read it only because he’s my friend. I can’t imagine why anyone else would…”  And people wonder why I left America…