I picked up Eugenides’s new novel, “The Marriage Plot,” an exuberantly bookish book that offers the clearest account to date of his cohort’s collective aspirations and anxieties. There is, it turns out, a unifying thread; it’s just not a matter of form. The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer “How should novels be?” but “Why write novels at all?”
Millions staff writer Garth Risk Hallberg has an essay in the New York Times Magazine today about this chain of YouTube videos.
Source: The New York Times
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