{"id":20,"date":"2025-10-21T02:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:41:39","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This list is still in flux and provisional. More to come&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bola\u00f1o<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Andrews, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/andrews_bolanos-fiction-expanding-universe.pdf\"><em>Roberto Bola\u00f1o&#8217;s Fiction: An Expanding Universe<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Birns and Juan F. De Castro (eds.), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/birns-de-castro_bolano-as-world-literature.pdf\"><em>Roberto Bola\u00f1o as World Literature<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Kubrick, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/kurnick_the-savage-detectives-reread.pdf\"><em>The Savage Detectives Reread<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ignacio L\u00f3pez-Calvo (ed.), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/lopez-calvo_bolano-a-less-distant-star.pdf\"><em>Roberto Bola\u00f1o, A Less Distant Star: Critical Essays<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Monroe (ed.), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/monroe_bolano-in-context.pdf\"><em>Roberto Bola\u00f1o in Context<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fernando Saucedo Lastra, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/saucedo-lastra_mexico-in-bolano.pdf\"><em>M\u00e9xico en la obra de Roberto Bola\u00f1o: Memoria y territorio<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>H\u00e9ctor Hoyos, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/hoyos_beyond-bolano.pdf\"><em>Beyond Bola\u00f1o: The Latin American Global Novel<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>theories of the novel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georg Luk\u00e1cs, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/01\/lukacs_theory-of-the-novel.pdf\"><em>The Theory of the Novel<\/em><\/a> (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971), especially chapter four (&#8220;The Inner Form of the Novel&#8221;) and chapter five (&#8220;The Historico-philosophical Conditioning of the Novel and its Significance&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>M. M. Bakhtin, \u201cEpic and Novel.\u201d In <em>The Dialogic Imagination<\/em> (eds. Holquist &#038; Emerson), Univ. of Texas Press (1981; orig. 1941).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>the phenomenology of reading<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Georges Poulet, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2025\/12\/poulet_phenomenology_of_reading.pdf\">&#8220;Phenomenology of Reading&#8221;<\/a>. <em>New Literary History<\/em> 1.1 (October 1969): 53-68.<\/li>\n<li>Rita Felski, <em>Hooked: Art and Attachment<\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020), especially chapter one (&#8220;On Being Attached&#8221;) and chapter two (&#8220;Art and Attunement&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>theories of narrative<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No\u00ebl Carroll, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/carroll_narrative-closure.pdf\">&#8220;Narrative Closure&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>G\u00e9rard Genette, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/genette_narrative-discourse.pdf\"><em>Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Theory<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Frank Kermode, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/kermode_sense-of-an-ending.pdf\"><em>The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vladimir Propp, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/propp_morphology-of-the-folktale.pdf\"><em>Morphology of the Folktale<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>increaing length in novels and other genres<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sam Adams, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2023\/11\/killers-of-the-flower-moon-avatar-oppenheimer-run-time-long-movies.html\">&#8220;What the Debate Over Long Movies Gets Wrong&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>Nick Clark, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/arts-entertainment\/books\/news\/novels-have-been-getting-substantially-longer-over-last-two-decades-a6803041.html\">&#8220;Novels &#8216;have been getting substantially longer over last two decades'&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Constance Grady, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ypWCs\">You\u2019re not imagining it \u2014 movies are getting longer&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Natalie Jarvey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/07\/why-are-movies-sooooo-long-an-investigation\">&#8220;Why Are Movies Sooooo Long? An Investigation&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Richard Lea, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/10\/are-books-getting-longer-survey-marlon-james-hanya-yanagihara?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">&#8220;The big question: are books getting longer?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sarah Shaffi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/discover\/articles\/book-length-debate-fiction-long-novels\">&#8220;What\u2019s the perfect length for a book?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Peter Shawn Taylor, <a href=\"https:\/\/macleans.ca\/culture\/books\/books-just-keep-getting-longer\/\">&#8220;Books Just Keep Getting Longer&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>commodification, literature, and cultural capital<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pierre Bourdieu, <a href=\"https:\/\/varioustexts.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bourdieu_field-of-cultural-production.pdf\"><em>The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Cunningham, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/cunningham_capitalist-epics.pdf\">&#8220;Capitalist Epics: Abstraction, Totality, and the Theory of the Novel&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Cunningham, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/cunningham_capitalism-theory-of-the-novel.pdf\">&#8220;&#8216;Very Abstract and Terribly Concrete&#8217;: Capitalism and The Theory of the Novel&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Priya Joshi, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/joshi_the-novel-as-commodity.pdf\">&#8220;The Novel as Commodity&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Karl Marx, <a href=\"https:\/\/varioustexts.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/marx_capital-volume-one.pdf\"><em>Capital<\/em>, Volume One<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Andrew Miller, <em>Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>long books<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stefano Ercolino, <em>The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow to Roberto Bolano&#8217;s 2666<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Catherine Gallagher, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2025\/12\/gallagher_formalism-and-time.pdf\">&#8220;Formalism and Time&#8221;<\/a>. <em>Modern Language Quarterly<\/em> 61.1 (March 2000): 229\u201351.<\/li>\n<li>Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds., <em>Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives<\/em> (The MIT Press: 2009).<\/li>\n<li>Colin Marshall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2026\/02\/an-introduction-to-outsider-artist-henry-darger.html\">&#8220;An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork&#8221;<\/a> <em>Open Culture<\/em> (February 18, 2026).<\/li>\n<li>Adam Mars-Jones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v40\/n21\/adam-mars-jones\/big-books\">&#8220;Big Books&#8221;<\/a>. <em>London Review of Books<\/em> 40.21 (November 8, 2018).<\/li>\n<li>Franco Moretti, <em>The Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garc\u00eda M\u00e1quez<\/em><\/li>\n<li>nostalgebraist, <a href=\"https:\/\/nostalgebraist.livejournal.com\/68532.html\">&#8220;About Henry Darger&#8221;<\/a> (May 26 2011).<\/li>\n<li>Lindsay Thomas, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2025\/12\/thomas_long-novels.pdf\">&#8220;Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and <em>A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/em>&#8220;<\/a>. <em>The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science<\/em> (2020): 653\u201367.<\/li>\n<li>Mario Vargas Llosa, <em>Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez: Historia de un deicidio<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>distraction and reading endurance<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sven Birkerts, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/birkerts_gutenberg-elegies.pdf\"><em>The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age<\/em><\/a> (1994)<\/li>\n<li>Matthew B. Crawford, <em>The World Beyond Your Head: Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction<\/em> (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Byung-Chul Han, <em>The Burnout Society<\/em> (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Alan Jacobs, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/jacobs_pleasures-of-reading-in-an-age-of-distraction.pdf\"><em>The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction<\/em><\/a> (2011)<\/li>\n<li>Emma Loffhagen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/feb\/21\/last-year-i-read-137-books-could-setting-targets-help-you-put-down-your-phone-and-pick-up-a-book\">&#8220;\u2018Last year I read 137 books\u2019: could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?&#8221;<\/a>. <em>The Guardian<\/em> (February 21, 2026).<\/li>\n<li>Ronan McDonald,  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/mcdonald_literary-studies-and-distraction.pdf\">&#8220;Care and Attention: Literary Studies andthe Distraction Economy.&#8221;<\/a> <em>Journal of Language, Literature and Culture<\/em> 72:1 (2025): 52-66. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/20512856.2025.2531612\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/20512856.2025.2531612<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Caleb Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/smith_thoreaus-axe-distraction-and-discipline-in-american-culture.pdf\"><em>Thoreau\u2019s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture<\/em><\/a> (2023)<\/li>\n<li>Sami Timimi and Jonathan Leo (eds), <em>Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture<\/em> (2024).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>curiosity and attention<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enrico Campo and Yves Citton (eds.), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/campo-citton_politics-of-curiosity.pdf\"><em>The Politics of Curiosity: Alternatives to the Attention Economy<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>students and teaching a post-literate population<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johanna Alonso, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/deep-dives\/2024\/09\/25\/students-turn-ai-do-their-assigned-readings-them\">&#8220;How Much Do Students Really Read?&#8221;<\/a> <em>Inside Higher Ed<\/em> (September 25, 2024).<\/li>\n<li>Adam Kotsko, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2024\/02\/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Loss of Things I Took for Granted: Ten years into my college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively&#8221;<\/a>. <em>Slate<\/em> (February 11, 2024).<\/li>\n<li>Beth McMurtrie, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/oI5Wc#selection-2741.0-2741.11\">&#8220;Is This the End of Reading?&#8221;<\/a> <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> (May 9, 2024).<\/li>\n<li>Erik Hoel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/fiction-in-the-age-of-screens\">&#8220;Fiction in the Age of Screens&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rose Horowitch, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/GRQ6h#selection-761.3-763.14\">&#8220;The Elite College Students Who Can&#8217;t Read Books<\/a> <em>The Atlantic<\/em> (November 2024).<\/li>\n<li>Jack Stripling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/podcast\/college-matters-from-the-chronicle\/is-reading-over-for-gen-z-students\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Is Reading Over for Gen Z Students? What happens when students come to college less willing and able to do the work?&#8221;<\/a> <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> (September 10, 2024).<\/li>\n<li>Walt Hunter, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2HiNa\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Stop Meeting Students Where They Are&#8221;<\/a> <em>The Atlantic<\/em> (February 2, 2026).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>reading and AI<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naomi S. Baron, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-is-making-reading-books-feel-obsolete-and-students-have-a-lot-to-lose-262680\">&#8220;AI is making reading books feel obsolete \u2013 and students have a lot to lose&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Naomi S. Baron, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/baron_reader-bot.pdf\"><em>Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters<\/em><\/a> (2026)<\/li>\n<li>Justin Cerenzia, <a href=\"https:\/\/cerenz.substack.com\/p\/like-a-book-elegantly-bound-in-a\">&#8220;Like A Book Elegantly Bound, In a Language We Can&#8217;t Read Just Yet: On Reading Print vs. Reading Digitally&#8221;<\/a> (December 19, 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Coeckelbergh and David J. Gunkel, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/coeckelbergh-gunkel_communicative-ai.pdf\"><em>Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models<\/em><\/a> (2025)<\/li>\n<li>Karen Hao, <em>Empire Of Ai<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Eric Mazur and Marc Watkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perusall.com\/blog\/reading-and-writing-in-the-age-of-ai\">&#8220;Reading and Writing in the Age of AI&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dan McQuillan, <em>Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dan McQuillan, <a href=\"https:\/\/danmcquillan.org\/cpct_seminar.html\">&#8220;The Role of the University is to Resist AI&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Franco Moretti, <em>Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History<\/em>. London: Verso, 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Franco Moretti, <em>Distant Reading<\/em>. London: Verso, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Chaoran Wang and Zhongfeng Tian (eds.), <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/wang-tian_rethinking-writing-ai.pdf\"><em>Rethinking Writing Education in the Age of Generative AI<\/em><\/a> (2025)<\/li>\n<li>Marc Watkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/marcwatkins.substack.com\/p\/no-one-is-talking-about-ais-impact\">&#8220;No One is Talking About AI&#8217;s Impact on Reading&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marc Watkins, <a href=\"https:\/\/marcwatkins.substack.com\/p\/reading-in-the-age-of-social-media\">&#8220;Reading in the Age of Social Media (and AI)&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hugh Craig and Arthur F. Kinney (eds.), <em>Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship<\/em> (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Allison Flood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/nov\/26\/ai-reveals-shakespeare-and-fletchers-different-roles-in-henry-viii\">&#8220;AI &#8216;reveals Shakespeare and Fletcher\u2019s different roles in Henry VIII'&#8221;<\/a> (November 26, 2019).<\/li>\n<li>W. Ron Hess, <a href=\"https:\/\/shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org\/hotwiring-the-bard\/\">&#8220;Insights Into Stylistic Analysis of Elizabethan Authorship Questions: Hotwiring the Bard Into Cyberspace&#8221;<\/a> <em>Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship<\/em> (June 25, 2011)<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Marche, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/VD8NO#selection-303.0-303.58\">&#8220;The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare\u2019s Mind&#8221;<\/a> <em>New York Times<\/em> (November 24, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>pedagogy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacques Ranci\u00e8re, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/ranciere_ignorant-schoolmaster.pdf\"><em>The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/moten-harney_undercommons5-7.pdf\"><em>The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>other<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Louis Althusser, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/althusser_ideology3.pdf\">&#8220;Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Quartet<\/li>\n<li>Benoit Mandelbrot, <a href=\"https:\/\/varioustexts.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mandelbrot_fractals.pdf\"><em>Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Michael Moon, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/files\/2026\/03\/moon_dargers-resources.pdf\"><em>Darger&#8217;s Resources<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This list is still in flux and provisional. More to come&#8230; Bola\u00f1o Chris Andrews, Roberto Bola\u00f1o&#8217;s Fiction: An Expanding Universe Nicholas Birns and Juan F. De Castro (eds.), Roberto Bola\u00f1o as World Literature David Kubrick, The Savage Detectives Reread Ignacio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/resources\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/longbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}