📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can actually be the product of a system.
In BIG FICTION, author & Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues that books are often shaped by a much larger industrial system: agents, editors, marketers, wholesalers & others whose decisions can affect the words on the page.
Hear Sinykin in conversation with humanities scholar Ted Underwood on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big-fiction
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