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I think part of the problem is that it became a bubble. Literary authors weren’t primarily writing for the general audience, but rather their specialized peers.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
I think part of the problem is that it became a bubble. Literary authors weren’t primarily writing for the general audience, but rather their specialized peers.
As this bubble became more separated from the mainstream, interest in these literary magazines shriveled.
- chaircher 5y agoThere's a lot of industries and institutions that have all but gone under the last decade or so because of this. More to come too I suspect
- toyg 5y agoIt's always been a bubble, but it used to be a very small bubble. Then in the mid-XX century it grew to become a very large bubble, which appeared to have become self-sustaining. The internet seems to have changed that, possibly because it removed the real economic structure that sustained such bubble.
- dleslie 5y agoYoung Adult and Speculative Fiction are experiencing similar bubbles, I think. Not quite at the point that they're writing to their peers exclusively, but that does seem to increasingly be the case.