The American Book Review launched their Future of Fiction issue and it includes a lengthy list of opinions on the matter from a wide range of writers, including Aimee Bender, Lydia Davis, Brian Evenson, Ander Monson, Jack Pendarvis and yours truly. My comments are too brief to excerpt here, so I'll post my friend Roy Kesey's instead:
I cannot predict the future. Hell, I can barely dict the past. But as to what it feels like to be writing fiction at this moment? A quotation, by all means, and with all due thanks to Ferdinand Foch, who was smart enough to get to it first: “Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I attack.”
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