Episode 47: How much and why do books matter? What is literary voice and influence? What is the state of contemporary literature and what is the sophistication of contemporary readers?

Books mentioned:
The Great Brain Series, by John D. Fitzgerald, published between 1967 and 1976
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1967
That Was Then, This Is Now, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1971
Rumble Fish, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1975
Tex, by S.E. Hinton, published in 1979
The Great Gatstby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926
My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, published in 1918
The Good Soldier, by Ford Maddox Ford, published in 1915
The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy, published in 1961
The World behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science, by Erik Hoel, published in 2023
The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike, published in 2000

Articles mentioned:
“Why Novels Are a Richer Experience than Movies,” published by Erik Hoel in Nautilus:
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“Ticket to the Fair,” published by David Foster Wallace in Harper’s in 1994:
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“French Letters: Theories on the New Novel” by Gore Vidal in Encounter in 1967

Short Story mentioned:
“The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin,” by Tennessee Williams, first published in 1949

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