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Great literary fiction, enjoyed and sustainable for generations, is not, for the most part, contemporary fiction, a fiction better described as academic fiction.  This is not a trivial, or false, distinction.  Academic fiction has insidiously replaced literary fiction with the result that readers who loved significant, well-created fiction stopped reading, and publishers, eternally concerned with blockbuster commercial success rather than literary quality, no longer considered literary fiction for publication. Academic fiction shape-shifted from classic literary endeavors when film and TV began to dominate as popular media for the delivery of stories.  Prose writers shifted to memoir and creative nonfiction and … Read More…