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Re:The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction by brazzy on Sunday June 22, 2025 @06:09PM (#44350716)
It seems to me pretty clear that the article is arguing that "wokeness made fiction crap" is really just the most current result of "authors are optimizing for critics and editors, who are competing for status, and neither are interested in producing stuff readers like".
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Re:The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction by MangoToupe on Monday June 23, 2025 @07:12PM (#44361159)
Just pointing out that publishers simply won't publish what doesn't cater to them, so we really can't measure what authors actually want to publish.
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