tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post3861702922567049710..comments2023-12-18T07:59:16.525-05:00Comments on Hats and Rabbits: Little Man, Big WorldChris Matarazzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17885109959459471509noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6693471143220681808.post-8771565869183210842012-06-11T14:15:57.941-04:002012-06-11T14:15:57.941-04:00"There are too many books and not enough publ...<i>"There are too many books and not enough publishers."</i> I think I'd modify this to "There are too many books and not enough readers," or "There are too many niches with not enough readers in each niche." I got in a bit of trouble a couple years ago when I suggested in a blog comment that the fiction market might be in better shape if many of the 256,000 people who half-heartedly participate in National Novel Writing Month would spend that month <i>reading</i> (and buying) novels instead.<br /><br /><i>"Ray Bradbury had a trail to blaze in a world that still smelled of cut lawns and opening flowers. What mark can I make in the concrete of a new millennium?"</i> For what it's worth, I've not yet read a book that captures the New Jersey suburbs in all their churning Chaucerian glory. Tom Perrotta, especially in his book <i>Joe College,</i> did the culture justice, but most fiction about the N.J. 'burbs miserably focuses on the same old lies: conformity; no culture; token diversity rather than the real, spontaneous thing; etc. The world where you live is less accurately mapped in fiction than most people realize, he said encouragingly...Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.com