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Christian Century, Feb 26, 2008
WRITE ON: "Like the death of the American dream, the death of the novel must be announced by each new generation," says Robert Clark Young. But the evidence he mounts suggests that dire predictions are actually made every decade or so. Young suggests that writers who issue such obituaries are projecting their own frustration with a lack of commercial success onto the publishing world.
In truth, many of the works that endure were not that popular when they first appeared, perhaps not even in the lifetime of their authors. Though the first edition of E Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby sold out, copies of the second printing of 3,000 were still in the warehouse 15 years later, at the time Fitzgerald died. Today about twice as many copies of The Great Gatsby are sold each month as sold in his lifetime. "The publishing industry has never been healthier than it is today," Young says, and "the glorious fact is that there has never been a better era in which to be a writer, which is why being a living author is extremely exciting" (Southern Review, Winter).
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