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Survival Strategy: The “Click-Bait” Novel?

WORDS Posted: December 9, 2015 10:18 am

“You have to get the reader on the first page of a short story, you have to convince them of a world inside page one. As writers try to capture the scattered attention of readers, I think the novel is moving towards that degree of compression.”

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WORDS Published: 12.08.15

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 12.08.15

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