Too Little, Too Hard
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Author: Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini (eds)
In recent years, countless arguments have been made for and against the enduring value of literature: reading improvesmental health and offers refuge from the news cycle; the novel is dead, poetry obsolete, writers replaceable by AI. TooLittle, Too Hard adds nuance to these discussions by examining a topic that tends to be left unexplored: the workingconditions of professional writers.What does it mean to write under a neoliberal economy? What can writers afford to work on – and what can’t they touch?What side-work sustains them, and what does it cost? What does the publishing industry want, and what does it quietlyrefuse? And what has happened to literary criticism, to the university, and to the conditions that once made writingpossible?In this wide-ranging anthology of essays, fifteen of our most important writers reflect on their experiences of writing under –and against – capitalism. At once practical and utopian, Too Little, Too Hard seeks to reckon with the material crises in thepresent state of literature while proposing collective action as the way to secure a future in which a writing life becomespossible once again.
ISBN 781913512873. Peninsula Press. pb. .
not yet published
In recent years, countless arguments have been made for and against the enduring value of literature: reading improvesmental health and offers refuge from the news cycle; the novel is dead, poetry obsolete, writers replaceable by AI. TooLittle, Too Hard adds nuance to these discussions by examining a topic that tends to be left unexplored: the workingconditions of professional writers.What does it mean to write under a neoliberal economy? What can writers afford to work on – and what can’t they touch?What side-work sustains them, and what does it cost? What does the publishing industry want, and what does it quietlyrefuse? And what has happened to literary criticism, to the university, and to the conditions that once made writingpossible?In this wide-ranging anthology of essays, fifteen of our most important writers reflect on their experiences of writing under –and against – capitalism. At once practical and utopian, Too Little, Too Hard seeks to reckon with the material crises in thepresent state of literature while proposing collective action as the way to secure a future in which a writing life becomespossible once again.
ISBN 781913512873. Peninsula Press. pb. .
not yet published