Sam Sacks on the "insider" ethos in contemporary fiction:
What is only rarely found is fiction that starts on the outside and, by virtue of formal innovation and the manipulation of language, stays outside. These are books that deconstruct the very act of reading. . .[T]he truth is that American fiction has very little dedicated avant-garde. The few who doggedly (and brilliantly) pursue it—Percival Everett, Lance Olsen, Stephen Dixon, among others who don’t find a place in these anthologies—are our real unprofessionals, since very few are reading them.
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