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When N. Scott Momaday speaks, with a voice like a great cathedral organ, everyone listens. It was with this voice that Momaday preserved oral traditions of his Kiowa tribe.
The suggestion that Beloved, Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel about slavery and its afterlives, is also a parable about the publishing industry would be bizarre, even offensive—if, that is, Morrison herself hadn’t explicitly suggested it. For years, Morrison had felt not merely penned in by her career as an editor at the publishing giant Random House; she had felt indentured, “held in contempt—to be played with when our masters are pleased, to be dismissed when they are not,” as she declared in a
Writers have increasingly adopted the neutered rhetoric of brand management to meet consumer demand for instant gratification through therapeutic literary experiences, repressing creativity and diversity.
Hilary Plum situates Dan Sinykin’s “Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature” among the ecosystem of small presses in the literary world....
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