[Commlist] New book: The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction

Paul Crosthwaite's book /The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction/ has 
just been published by Cambridge University Press.

There’s a description below, and more information and an extract here: 
http://www.cambridge.org/9781108499569

Paul Crosthwaite also wrote a piece about the book for the CUP blog: 
http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2019/07/literature-value-and-the-market/

In the twenty-first century, leading publishers are under intense 
pressure from their conglomerate owners and shareholders to generate 
growth and profits. This book shows how these pressures have transformed 
the contemporary novel. Paul Crosthwaite argues that recent British and 
American authors have internalized the market logics of the financial 
sector and book trade, resulting in the production of works of "market 
metafiction" in which authors reflect obsessively on their writing's 
positioning in the literary marketplace./The Market Logics of 
Contemporary Fiction/reveals the entanglement of fictional narrative and 
market dynamics to be the central phenomenon of contemporary literary 
culture. It engages with work by key authors including Iain Sinclair, 
Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Chris Kraus, Percival 
Everett, David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead, Anne Billson, Hari 
Kunzru, Barbara Browning, Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, Tao Lin, Nell Zink, 
Joshua Cohen, Sheila Heti, and Garth Risk Hallberg.


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