![]() ![]() The literary theorist Mark McGurl has argued that a significant percentage of these e-books are novels that nobody has ever read. Much of this output is enabled by Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform, on which anyone can upload a Word document and turn it into an e-book. Bowker, the company that assigns ISBN numbers to all new books, calculated that in the United States in 2018 there were 1,677,781 new self-published works. We are living in a golden era of publishing. Matt Weir ▪ Winter 2023ĭetail from a painting by Romanian surrealist Victor Brauner (1903–1966) (Yannick/Flickr)īy Mircea Cărtărescu, trans. Yet in his fiction, he often speaks through narrators hostile to publication and recognition. ![]() ![]() The Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu boasts a long, international-award-winning bibliography of poetry and prose. ![]()
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