A Reader’s Manifesto by B.R. Myers
Before anything else, you need to know the subtitle: “An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose”.
This should be required reading everywhere. Especially those big-name writer’s workshops that churn out so many who will clutter up the bookshop shelves for years to come…
Now, it’s irrelevant whether you agree with each and every example. The desperately important thing is that he dares to critique these modern gods of “literary” fiction. What a glorious relief! Someone thinking critically about these things! And of course I don’t just mean fault finding, I mean analyzing the work — having a poke at it with a stick and seeing what it’s made of.
Yes! Let’s use those brains!
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