FIUSM Staff FIU

As a reader and aspiring writer, I get pretty bummed on a regular basis not only by the cultural obscurity of even our best-selling novelists, and the consequent vacuum of casual conversation on the subject, but the popular insistence that the novel is dead, killed by DVDs, the Internet and James Cameron—mediums of what Harold Bloom, critic and professor at Yale University, called, “the tyranny of the visual.”