Reading New Grub Street | Alexandria
Read New Grub Street by George Gissing. Battling for clicks and viral fame in Victorian London - yes, "New Grub Street" exposed the brutal content wars back in 1891. Gissing's prescient novel reveals how the pressure to produce popular, marketable writing destroyed artistic integrity then, just as it does now. Shockingly, he predicted our modern attention economy and its crushing effect on creativity.