So audience drives the market?

Makes sense to me, our little capitalist nation has a comfy niche for people who like to write feel-good stuff.

Would you think less of me if you knew I was aspiring for my own cushion in that niche?
Michele | Homepage | 10.21.07 - 1:45 pm | #

The antidote to te Brooklyn touchy feely sacharine pseudo intellectual gross out fest -

Gary Shteyngart

Game, set, match.
thephoenixnyc | Homepage | 10.23.07 - 12:13 pm | #

Oooooh. This is so not the Brooklyn I have come to know. Too much kitsch, not enough Jews. Hasidics, mind you. But, I make it a point of never reading anything Oprah recommends. Does that make me a purist?

CP.
CP | Homepage | 10.23.07 - 7:26 pm | #

I might have something really good to add to this once I finish "Why We Read what We Read" by Lisa Adams. It breaks down the common themes present in the bestselling fiction of the last decade and a half.
Quinn | Homepage | 10.26.07 - 12:08 am | #