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TOO LITTLE, TOO HARD by Lucy Mercer & Livia Franchini (Eds.)

TOO LITTLE, TOO HARD by Lucy Mercer & Livia Franchini (Eds.)

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131 x 197mm, 224 pages, Black white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2026 In recent years, countless arguments have been made for and against the enduring value of literature: reading improves mental health and offers refuge from the news cycle; the novel is dead, poetry obsolete, writers AI-replaceable. Too Little, Too Hard adds nuance to these discussions by asking professional writers what they actually think about literary value, and their underexplored working conditions. What does it mean to write under a neoliberal economy? What can writers afford to work on – and what are they not s

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