#Great American Novel

[schmoyoho]

christalbott450 cooked, give them a publishing deal 🗣️

#publishing deals #great american novel #how strange it is to be anything at all

[ebookporn]

It’s safe to say that we were awash in adaptations of The Great Gatsby even before the copyright expired at the end of 2020—from opera to ballet to stage to film to video games to radio, not to mention television and er, film. But since then, the re-envisionings (or at least the announcements thereof) have come in a deluge, as we are, shall we say, borne back ceaselessly into the past, with a prequel, a graphic novel, an animated feature, a “diverse, inclusive” miniseries, a fanfic written by a college class (and then optioned for film), a Florence Welch musical, and also a totally different musical, which producers have announced is coming to Broadway this spring, starring Jeremy Jordan as Gatsby and Eva Noblezada as Daisy.

#f scott fitzgerald #great gatsby #broadway musicals #booklr #librarians #great american novel

[yung-sex-symbol]

If you only knew babygirl.

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #daisy buchanan #tom buchanan #great american novel #self love #love yourself #love story #lana del rey #young and beautiful #instagram #twitter #comedy #repost #reblog #like wtf #viralpost #my screenshots

[harrison-abbott]

I’ve posted about this novel several times before; but it’s its 50th Anniversary today: published on 28th February 1973.

Honestly, it is one of the best books I’ve ever encountered. One of the greatest artistic feats, in any medium, I can think of. Please, please give it a go.

I will remain indebted to this book my whole life. And already owe so much to it in terms of influence. But yeah: it’ll be easy enough to find.

#gravity's rainbow #thomas pynchon #50th year anniversary #post modernism #great american novel #classic novel #all time great #magnum opus

[sspacegodd]

I'm thinking of buying an expensive notebook with a genuine leather cover in case it ever turns out I'm a writer.

#writer #writing #author #great american novel #book

[thatwasuzi]

I just learned today that Cormac McCarthy passed away last year.

His books did a number on me.

I feel a calling in my gut to record an audiobook version of Blood Meridian.

It'd be terrible and unproduced and no one would listen to it, but I feel like I have to do it.

Cormac's writings punched my soul in the gut ten years ago and I am still bruised.

#cormac mccarthy #blood meridian #reading #novels #great american novel

[porterdavis]

Wow. I did OK with the list up until about 1975, when the books became unknown and unfamiliar to me. Seems family, kids, and work took over.

I can't decide if my time now is better spent reading or watching movies. I know what I should do...

#the atlantic #great american novel

[flatwormdisco]

In the years 1840-1850s, the worth of a Native American scalp is roughly equal to the worth of a barrel of spermaceti. Both are around 100 dollars.

#moby dick #cormac mccarthy #great american novel #whaling #bloodmeridian

[dakho]

-I'm very interested currently in the publication dates of Moby-Dick and Great Expectations - 1851 and 1861, respectively. It makes sense that the bildungsroman, the coming of age novel most exemplified in the Dickensian narrative, had to rise in popularity before MD's emergence.

-Dickens arrives at a time where social mobility is becoming more fluid and it is more fashionable to rise from humble origins vs. noble birth. Industrial age, empires to trading companies, young men mythologize their origins.

-Moby-Dick is like the anti-bildungrsoman. Maturity is halted and traumatized by labor, a mythical, unending, torturous labor that deprives its laborers of the supposed reward of industry. I need to read all of it haha I have only dipped around in the first ~120 pages

-Society went through the entire metamorphosis and upheaval of the Industrial Age and Fin de Siecle for this particular novel of Melville's to find its stars, for a weird, obsessive tale of whale hunters to take root in readers' hearts and minds as an incredible book.

I wrote this post in tweet style paragraphs because it is yet fitting for the mode of light essay that a blog or tumblr post is.

#bildungsroman #coming of age #novels #great american novel #writing #moby dick #great expectations

[vintagecase]

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

#F. Scott Fitzgerald #Author #Writer #The Great Gatsby #Tender is the Night #This Side of Paradise #1920s #1930s #Great American Novel #Short Stories #B&W Photo

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

#slug adventures #pheromones #great american novel #legacy #rain

[ebookporn]

Where is our Zola?

by James McDonald

A novel about working class lives is the exception to the rule in contemporary American publishing, which has tended in the 21st century to find its thematic center of gravity in matters of middle class bewilderment, identity politics and pessimism as the intersecting crises of capitalism have intensified. It is not necessarily the case that no books about working lives are being written, only that they are not eagerly sought by the publishing industry.

There are exceptions. The death of novelist Russell Banks earlier this year was a genuine loss. We wrote recently about John M. Hamilton’s 2013 novel A Hell Called Ohio. And Tess Gunty’s 2022 National Book Award-winning novel The Rabbit Hutch follows the life of a young cashier in a moribund Rust Belt city.

Sources vary widely as to how many new books, including fiction and nonfiction, are published annually in the US, but the consensus is that the number is between 500,000 and 1 million, with an additional 1.5 million self-published titles, Despite these seemingly large numbers, only 1 to 2 percent of novels completed in a year are accepted by traditional publishers.

The relative popularity of the different literary genres can be calculated on the basis of sales figures. Here the perennial winners are romance, mystery/thriller and science fiction/fantasy. Also popular are young adult literature (Y/A) and graphic novels. According to a Goodreads.com poll, the least popular genre in the poll was literary fiction, the category that would include socially realistic fiction.

Given the reality of genre popularity, the highly selective nature of publishing and the pressures exerted on publishing by middle class preoccupations, relatively little in the way of serious fiction gets through. What does deals primarily with the crises and interests of the professional set.

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#authors #writers #book publishing #literature #great american novel #librarians #book tumblr

[acowboynamedasa]

If someone wrote f.Scott Fitzgerald x Ernest Hemingway fan fiction, I think the world would sing a different tune. I think the grass would be greener, the sky bluer, the birds might once again sing. after all the work and dedication, I believe the world will be at peace. for we will have tampered with the legacy of more raciest, sexist, and homophobic bastards.

#great american novel #ernest hemingway #f. scott fitzgerald #writing #books and reading #fanfic

[booksofdelight]

The Nine Great American Novels From the 1930s

Find out the Great American Novels From the 1930s!

We will be traveling back in time to the 1930s and look at some of the most important works of literature released this decade. Mant of these novels have been forgotten but not by literary circles. Keep reading to see the nine great American novels from the 1930s! The original article by The Atlantic lists over a100 books spanning from the 1920s to the 2020s. Every book selected had to be…

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#1930s #Book Recommendations #books #featured #Great American Novel #list #reading

[timbarrus]

IMakeSets & I walk Through The Sets. As any of the characters in my books. This time, too, Romeo Void is frozen in his infinity of a timeless code and cold. Hieroglyphics on the wall, Jim Morrison in bed.

#tim barrus #tim barrus on tumblr #tim barrus novel dirt bike town #dirt bike town #great american novel #charcter development #tim barrus on format #tim barrus on facebook #tim barrus on pinterest

[grandhotelabyss]

Excluding your own works and allowing for the fact that if this century is anything like the last the best novel written so far is probably some minor bohemian’s self published thing that nobody’s read yet, what’s your pick for the great American novel of the 21st century so far?

It's got to be on this list, by definition: Franzen, Roth, Erdrich, Ozick, Moshfegh, McCarthy. Outside that list, I thought David Treuer's Translation of Dr. Apelles and Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive were pretty good too. If only I liked Joshua Cohen. Somehow none of these works seems quite definitive; none seems quite "great" enough, not even the big-canvas Franzen, Roth, Erdrich, and Luiselli books. I do believe it's a somewhat fallow period, like the 1900s and 1910s compared to the 1920s. The best is yet to come. Moshfegh will probably do it; she's still young in author years and is on the right track.

#american literature #great american novel #ottessa moshfegh