I just interviewed Ian Cattanach of Write Conscious about the state of literature, and it was a banger.
Although the video is on my books channel, I hope you won’t mind a bit of cross-promotion on this one, as we touched on many themes that I think will interest followers of this Substack page.
We cover:
-Whether literature is dead, and if so can it be resurrected?
-What both political sides get wrong about literature
-Is there hope for mainstream publishing, or should writers turn to self-publishing or Substack?
-Is it still possible to write ‘transformative’ literature?
-Why MFA courses are so dangerous
-The masculinity crisis in reading
-What happened to the experimental writing of the postwar era?
-What is a ‘logic bro’?
And much more!
Check out the video below, or go to my books page here for the audio version.
Many thanks,
Nick