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Winner-take-all economics, apparently, applies even to mediocre literary fiction if you can attract Hollywood:

Literary power couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have put their Park Slope limestone on the market for $14,500,000, as The New York Daily News was the first to report. Built in 1901 by the Woolworth family, the 7,670-square-foot house sits on a double lot that goes all the way through to the next block. It also has a conservatory with Tiffany stained glass.

So if you have some Deep Thoughts that have been thought and expressed many times before* about a horrible event in human history and can add some gimmicks to OK prose, get cracking — you might win the lottery. The Holocaust and 9/11 have been done, but, I dunno, the Ukraine famine ordered by Stalin was also very horrible, and I’m sure a fictional precocious annoying kid has some things to say about it that sound a lot like what you’d say about it. Maybe try to get in touch with Stephen Daldry’s agent in advance. You might be able to follow that up with a book in which the reader can flip through pages that produce an accumulating pile of cash money, proving that we need to flood the market with English degrees.

*Since I was criticized in comments for assuming that the instantly forgotten but Oscar (TM) nominated film version of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close would live down to the ghastly source material based on the preview and the director, I forced myself to watch at least an hour when I saw that it was on HBO. Unless you really enjoy attempted crude emotional manipulation that fails to even achieve its aim because of its simultaneous banality and pretentiousness, I would strongly advise against doing this. Tobias was, if anything, too kind.

[HT Corey Robin.]

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