‘Why have novelists ceded their ground to science?’

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓  ·  October 20th, 2009  ·  filed under books

“The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel—the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind—has transformed itself into the neurological novel, wherein the mind becomes the brain.”

n + 1 studies “The Rise of the Neuronovel.” (via HTMLGIANT)

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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