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[quote=Anonymous]I think the overall quality of literary fiction has dropped dramatically over the past 20 years. I'm not entirely sure why. But I think the primary fault has to lie with the purchasing editors at the big NY publishing houses. You used to know what you were getting when you purchased a book from Farrar, Straus and certain other imprints. You'd know these were thoughtful, incredibly well written books by major authors. Now it's all just a big list of blah. A certain groupthink seems to have settled among NY literary fiction editors. And it's turning readers off and killing the careers of otherwise interesting writers who don't fit in a perfect, marketable box. And clearly those boxes are inadequate since sales of literary fiction have been falling off a cliff in recent years. The industry needs to focus on strong, interesting voices while the marketing department needs to be banished from all purchasing decisions because they clearly don't know what they're doing. It's just lazy, predictable book after lazy, predictable book lately. Judging by recent years, the NY literary establishment may as well go home and leave the space to AI.[/quote]

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