Luke O'Neil's Very Real Fiction

Emo journalism or: Dystopian Miracle and Wonder?

I’ve been thinking recently about doing a book club. I write about a book every month or so over here, and I think there’s a very deep flaw in the way we discuss literature in America, how books are tied to the same news cycle as movies or albums. Say a novel or essay collection comes out on Tuesday, there’s usually a very short window most (not all…) p…