[John Bailey]

I suppose you could argue that Breaking Bad and Gilmore Girls and
Bojack Horseman are directly responsible for a thirst for
Kardashian-related television, too.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Karr's is the kind of airy generalization that makes me want to go all
> quant. Have those fabulist etc. categories actually increased as a share of
> novels published? Is there some per-reader sales tracking data to show that
> readers who tried those categories are now reading more memoirs? Is there
> any reason to think this argument -- ostensibly about the public world of
> books and readers -- is more than  a projection of Karr's preferences?
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Changes in  the novel have helped to jack up memoir's audience as fiction
>> grew more fabulist or dystopic or hyper intellectual under the sway of Joyce
>> and Woolf and Garcia Marquez and Pynchon acolytes, readers thirsty for
>> reality began imbibing memoir."   ---Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir 2105
>>
>> Well, maybe, Mary, partly......
>>
>> But I, who along with readers and critics' 'lengthy assaults' on memoir,
>> such as by Wm Gass, Jonathon Yardley and James Wolcott will just add,
>>
>> Knausgaard and Ferrante have been hugely read as novelists bringing us
>> back to 'reality'. And the rediscovery of Stoner and more and more.
>
>
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