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[jfb]

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 may have a more coherent opinion on the essay once I've read the whole thing. Meanwhile, I just think it's funny.