Amy Hungerford's Making Literature Now will make thought-provoking reading for anyone interested in the politics and paradoxes of the contemporary literary culture industry.
Rachel Carroll
English: Journal of the English Association
Amy Hungerford's Making Literature Now is bold and brilliant. At once coolly analytical and ardently engaged, Hungerford reads and interprets with rigor, precision, ... Read moreand moral passion. Bracing, important, revelatory work.
Priscilla Gilman
author of The Anti-Romantic Child
After launching a much-needed conversation about a literary field lately transformed by technology and global capitalism, Making Literature Now ends by urging scholars to recognize the transformations around them and not to relinquish their voices.
Evan Brier
American Literary History Online
[T]he real challenge - perhaps the defining challenge of contemporary literary studies - is that we ourselves are part of the field, implicated in its specific regimes of value and prestige. It is a challenge inadequately addressed even by some of the best recent scholarship, but one which Making Literature Now brilliantly brings to the forefront of debate.
David Winters
The Cambridge Quarterly
Part reportage, part book history, part literary criticism, part autobiographical essay, Making Literature Now cuts a thrillingly unpredictable path through the field of contemporary fiction. Few scholars know this terrain as intimately as Amy Hungerford does or can match her appreciation for its minor attractions and hidden heroes.
James F. English
University of Pennsylvania
It's rare for literary criticism to bring news. But Making Literature Now is that decisive book that tells you things you want to know about the circumstances and conditions of writing today, even while it guides you through theoretical issues and conflicts with a friendly and ingenious intelligence. Hungerford's brilliant portraits of editors and writers, behind-the-scenes ethnography, and pointed inquiries make this THE book from which future literary histories will be written.
Mark Greif
author of The Age of the Crisis of Man
I value Hungerford's value for readers and, as her reader, I pay it forward: Making Literature Now is worth your attention.
Louise Hill
Los Angeles Review of Books
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