Brittany Luce

you know, there's also a lot of slop out there.

And I think that's the case with anything where there's like a high volume of content, which, you know, AO3, a high volume of content is produced on there.

And I think many of the mainstream published books that come from fanfic, I mean, I think there's a lot to like about some of them.

But many of them are not exactly literary fiction.

I wonder, like, is this sort of

deep embrace of fanfiction, possibly promoting things that might be more slop-adjacent?

Friends of mine who've written books, like, the editor doesn't even really be editing the book.

They'll just read it and be like, all right, give me more.

Ready for the next set of pages.

Yeah.

Eli, you said in your article that

So to be clear, men do read less than women.

Men read less fiction than women do.

And people sometimes talk about it in panicky ways.

How do fanfic and fanfic originated books kind of fuel this kind of worry about what's being published and who's reading it?

So as the one literate man, apparently, in existence.

Hold on.

Liam, who is producing this episode, he reads a lot too.

Shout out to Liam.

You guys are holding it down.