ThomasLitchford

In an interview over at 3:AM Magazine Lisa Williams offers this:

It’s getting harder and harder to publish serious literature and when it is published,the problem is to get it noticed. As a result we see fewer writers out there tackling…themes of memory and the importance of the past.

Is it really getting harder to publish serious literature? (I can ask this as a novice, as an unpublished author who hasn’t even begun submitting.) Is there any credence to this notion that serious fiction is unmarketable and therefore unpublishable? How much of this is trumped up by disgruntled authors?

I have a sense that there are a lot more people writing novels today due to easier access to higher ed. I also have a sense that a lot of it is crap (just ask Miss Snark). Most people don’t want to hear that, but it’s true. It’s true with any form of art.