Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (Literature Now)

Big Fiction is a groundbreaking exploration of how changes in the publishing industry have impacted literature over the past six decades.

Through vivid portraits of industry figures and dazzling readings of a vast range of novelists, Dan Sinykin reveals how conglomeration has shaped what kinds of books and writers are published.

This deeply original book offers an inside look at the industry's daily routines, personal dramas, and institutional crises, while emphasizing how women and people of color navigated these shifts in publishing.

With a focus on the distinctive niche of employee-owned W.

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Norton, Big Fiction provides a gripping and lively recasting of the past six decades of American fiction.

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