“The Risk of Serialized Reality: On ‘Big Fiction’ and ‘The New Seriality'” — Mesha Maren in The Metropolitan Review

In a recent article for The Metropolitan Review, novelist Mesha Maren reads Dan Sinykin’s Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature together with my article “The New Seriality” (Qui Parle 32.2, Dec 2023). Maren’s essay, which is concerned primarily with literary publishing but illuminating for contemporary culture more generally, is worth your time!

Bride of Frankenstein Minute-by-Minute: First talk on my forthcoming book!

This Tuesday, June 17, I’ll be giving my first talk on my forthcoming book on Bride of Frankenstein at Leibniz Universität Hannover — where I first started thinking about Frankenstein films about 20 years ago!

More info here.