About this episode

The episode discusses the decline of literary fiction and its implications for reading culture in the context of increasing AI-generated content.

This week we evaluate the pervasive notion that “literary” or “challenging” fiction is going away, and what that means for our reading culture more broadly in age where the AI slop is only becoming more prevalent. It’s a convo about genre, category, selling versus writing categories, and much more. Join us!

People in this episode

Hosts: Erik Hane, Laura Zats

Topics covered

• literary fiction
• reading culture
• genre
• category
• AI impact

Keywords

• literary fiction
• reading culture
• AI
• genre
• category

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Organizations: AI

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