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1 Article by: Mark McGurl

Mark McGurl is the Albert L. Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. He is the author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon and The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing.

Amazon Is Reshaping Contemporary Literature

From the hypercommercialization of Kindle Singles to the fraught question of classifying book genres, Amazon has put its stamp on the literary field in ways large and small — but always in the interests of profit, says Mark McGurl, author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon.