tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post7603424698731337361..comments2023-09-25T05:45:41.437-07:00Comments on The Art of Fiction: Literary Fiction....in declineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-72574160776822870072017-12-19T08:28:10.146-08:002017-12-19T08:28:10.146-08:00I've read the report but don't feel able t...I've read the report but don't feel able to react to it, so your comments are useful. Thanks. I still don't know how I'd like money to be given to literature. I think the growth of Indie publishers over recent years has been good for poetry's diversity, but it's not helped fiction much. I'd have thought that the increasing numbers of Creative Writing students might have boosted literary sales. I can believe that e-books have led to fewer literary books being read. I spent a few days in Dublin, where prose seems better supported than here. Until I read the report I hadn't realised that "42% of writers from a BAME wrote literary fiction, against only 27% of white writers".<br />Jon McGregor's "So many ways to begin" is one of my favourite books - it deserves to be popular. "This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You" is very different. Sarah Hall's more reliably deserving of a bigger readership. Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.com