Lara Mimosa Montes’s The Time of the Novel - The Brooklyn Rail
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The written word is having a moment. Substacks proliferate my inbox, bookstores are resurging throughout the city, print-only magazines are back in circulation. But some days, the sudden accumulation of writing has left literature feeling dull, less engaged. It has left me “wordsick,” to borrow a term from Lara Mimosa Montes’s new book, The Time of the Novel, wanting writing to do more.