{"product_id":"bring-on-the-books-for-jim-collins-9780822346067","title":"Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture","description":"\u003ci\u003eBring on the Books for Everybody\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah's Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media.\u003cp\u003eCollins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a \"literary experience\" in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShakespeare in Love\u003c\/i\u003e to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins's analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from \u003ci\u003eThe Jane Austen Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiteracy and Longing in L.A.\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eSaturday\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Collins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822346060\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822346067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2010 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/16\/2010","brand":"Jim Collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448998408447,"sku":"9780822346067","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c636c96e-a031-47c3-9204-b0d1e330e02b.jpg?v=1777261499","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bring-on-the-books-for-jim-collins-9780822346067","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}