Ours is far from the first era in which the novel has falsely been declared dead, but it is the only one in which the usual arguments are compounded by all means of digital media claiming our attention. Yet the long narrative form is still with us. As these postings testify, often with eloquence, there is no replacing it.
from Chapter 5 of Jane Austen's 
Northanger Abbey
from a 2007 review of Milan Kundera's 
The Curtain by Cécile Alduy
"Truer Than Fact" NY Times op-ed piece by Julia Glass
"There's More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen" NY Times op-ed
piece by Jonathan Galassi
"The Future of Fiction," discussion between critic Alan Cheuse and
book editor Joshua Kendell National Association of Independent Writers and Editors event
"I Was a Teenage Illiterate," Cathleen Schine, NYTBR, 2/2010
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us."—Franz Kafka
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