There’s a sense of heightened stakes when the most influential people on literary Substack release their most hyped novels a month apart. With John Pistelli’s Major Arcana, and Ross Barkan’s Glass Century dropping at the bullseye center of the 2020s, the question lingering in every author’s mind, whether Substack can exist as a self-sustaining literary ecosystem for its top novelists may soon have its answer. These two, along with Matthew Gasda who will release Sleepers the same day as Glass Century and Noah Kumin whose Stop All The Clocks arrives in June, have been the central figures of what has long been speculated to be an emergent new romanticism in the literary world.
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