Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school the….

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system..

You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You ca….

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, c….