Archives for June 2020
The Cultural Turn To The Material – Where The Crawdads Sing, Witches, And Japan, Part 2 (Marianne Kimura)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Given the intense focus on the material and the deep and scientific knowledge of the material of the author in Where the Crawdads Sing, it is interesting to ask if there is a connection between…
The Cultural Turn To The Material – Where The Crawdads Sing, Witches, And Japan, Part 1 (Marianne Kimura)
The following is the first of a two-part series. In the recent punishing publishing environment where, for example, sales of adult fiction in America are down from 144 million units to 116 million units (20%) over a 4 year period, according to NPD BookScan, Delia Owens’ novel Where the Crawdads…