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The Long Goodbye

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By Salomé Saqué Verified, Ellie Karthaus, Paul Starobin Essays
| Pittsburgh Review of Books
Fiction has “lost its ambition,” Sam Kahn says in a recent piece on “Castalia,” his popular newsletter. “It’s lost its centrality to the culture.” I agree with the broad thrust, with an exception I’ll get to later. Kahn is thoughtful about this, and I happily chewed over the topic with him recently on my podcast. And yet. This point, expressed in various ways, has been out there for a long time.
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