Comments on: Fiction’s narrative hangover http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=65 An occasional journal of ideas and work by Michael Fitzgerald Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:45:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Michael http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-555 Wed, 23 May 2007 02:55:15 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-555 I might be too much of a realist, although I like a good escape novel, too. I might be guilty of being a lazy and self-centered reader, as well, who doesn't want to work hard enough to find the connection between the story and my life. I haven't read enough to make any blanket statements, but I do feel like a lot of modern fiction isn't really about anything. As for the Atlantic, I didn't think that was a good example. The magazine was struggling at the time (I don't know how it's doing now), and it also has been remaking itself into a much more political publication. I might be too much of a realist, although I like a good escape novel, too. I might be guilty of being a lazy and self-centered reader, as well, who doesn’t want to work hard enough to find the connection between the story and my life. I haven’t read enough to make any blanket statements, but I do feel like a lot of modern fiction isn’t really about anything.

As for the Atlantic, I didn’t think that was a good example. The magazine was struggling at the time (I don’t know how it’s doing now), and it also has been remaking itself into a much more political publication.

]]> by: Carol Hildebrand http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-554 Tue, 22 May 2007 19:51:51 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-554 I think that you might be speaking from a realist point of view. To escapists such as myself, fiction is attractive b/c it's not real. Perhaps the Atlantic's cancellation of its fiction slot is b/c it isn't really a place where fiction readers go to find their fix? I think that you might be speaking from a realist point of view. To escapists such as myself, fiction is attractive b/c it’s not real. Perhaps the Atlantic’s cancellation of its fiction slot is b/c it isn’t really a place where fiction readers go to find their fix?

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