The Resource Making literature now, Amy Hungerford
Making literature now, Amy Hungerford
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The item Making literature now, Amy Hungerford represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Making literature now, Amy Hungerford represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "This book takes us into the social networks of contemporary literary culture, examining how small-scale presses, writers, book distributors, and editors make new fiction-and make a living-in a mass market indifferent to all but a tiny slice of the literature produced today. McSweeney's, the small San Francisco-based press founded by Dave Eggers, is the book's central subject, but the story of that press serves also as portal to broader networks of contemporary literary production, a network that requires not one person-like the famous Eggers-but thousands. How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making literature now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various conditions--including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition--affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read. Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears--and disappears--in contemporary American culture"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Contents
-
- Introduction : writing from the rabbit hole
- Making literature now
- McSweeney's and the school of life
- Reading novels in the net
- GPS historicism
- How Jonathan Safran Foer made love
- On not reading DFW
- Afterword : present tense archive
- Isbn
- 9780804799423
- Label
- Making literature now
- Title
- Making literature now
- Statement of responsibility
- Amy Hungerford
- Subject
-
- Book industries and trade -- United States
- Books and reading
- Books and reading -- United States
- Buchhandel
- Buchproduktion
- Electronic books
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism
- Literatur
- Literature -- Appreciation
- Literature -- Appreciation -- United States
- McSweeney's (Firm)
- McSweeney's (Firm)
- Publishers and publishing
- Publishers and publishing -- United States
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- Book industries and trade
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book takes us into the social networks of contemporary literary culture, examining how small-scale presses, writers, book distributors, and editors make new fiction-and make a living-in a mass market indifferent to all but a tiny slice of the literature produced today. McSweeney's, the small San Francisco-based press founded by Dave Eggers, is the book's central subject, but the story of that press serves also as portal to broader networks of contemporary literary production, a network that requires not one person-like the famous Eggers-but thousands. How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making literature now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various conditions--including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition--affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read. Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears--and disappears--in contemporary American culture"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hungerford, Amy
- Dewey number
- 070.5
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Z471
- LC item number
- .H89 2016eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Post 45
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McSweeney's (Firm)
- Publishers and publishing
- Book industries and trade
- Literature
- Books and reading
- McSweeney's (Firm)
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
- Book industries and trade
- Books and reading
- Literature
- Publishers and publishing
- United States
- Literatur
- Buchhandel
- Buchproduktion
- Label
- Making literature now, Amy Hungerford
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : writing from the rabbit hole -- Making literature now -- McSweeney's and the school of life -- Reading novels in the net -- GPS historicism -- How Jonathan Safran Foer made love -- On not reading DFW -- Afterword : present tense archive
- Control code
- 952338428
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780804799423
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 40026256992
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952338428
- Label
- Making literature now, Amy Hungerford
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : writing from the rabbit hole -- Making literature now -- McSweeney's and the school of life -- Reading novels in the net -- GPS historicism -- How Jonathan Safran Foer made love -- On not reading DFW -- Afterword : present tense archive
- Control code
- 952338428
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780804799423
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 40026256992
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)952338428
Subject
- Book industries and trade -- United States
- Books and reading
- Books and reading -- United States
- Buchhandel
- Buchproduktion
- Electronic books
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism
- Literatur
- Literature -- Appreciation
- Literature -- Appreciation -- United States
- McSweeney's (Firm)
- McSweeney's (Firm)
- Publishers and publishing
- Publishers and publishing -- United States
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- Book industries and trade
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