I can't recommend enough Christian Lorentzen's broadside in Granta against a critical trend that treats literature as a corporate product and readers as consumers--a view that "amounts to a distracting narcissism, looking in the mirror when our eyes should be on the page." granta.com/literature-w...

Literature Without Literature | Christian Lorentzen | Granta

‘Corporate publishing is the channel through which literature happens to flow at this moment in history.’ Christian Lorentzen dissects the literary establishment.

good lord, this is searing: "ah yes, the iron logic of a model you made up, performing a task a human can do better than a computer – reading a book – and performing it incorrectly"

Solid -- thank you

This is excellent.