Simone Murray. The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era.

Abstract

With Salman Rushdie posting on Facebook, Amitav Ghosh blogging about research, and Teju Cole composing a Twitter novel, postcolonial scholars have seen digital technologies changing contemporary literary interpretation. In The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era, Simone Murray offers a compelling account of how shifts in media forms influence literary culture. As she notes, “There is a weary sense that, as a discipline, we have been around this blo...