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Stephen King has a "fictional essay" in Book Magazine about the wildfire popularity of literary fiction, to the detriment of America's struggling pop novelists. The first footnote:

This quote and this source--like all the quotes and sources in this essay--are, of course, fictitious. One may argue that this to some extent negates the arguments that the essay makes, but since actual sources supporting those arguments don't exist, all I can say is that it seemed necessary.

You'd have to find the magazine to read the whole thing, but the beginning is online.

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I'd like to post a fictitious (1) comment about this essay.

1. I think some of the intended humor of may have been lost on me: a poor, illiterate reader who not only hasn't bought a copy of either Ulysses or The Corrections, but hasn't even read them.