A Reader's Manifesto

A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose
First edition cover of the expanded essay.
AuthorBrian Reynolds Myers
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary criticism
PublisherMelville House Publishing
Publication date
2002
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages149 (including endnotes)
ISBN0-9718659-0-6
OCLC50243166
818/.08 21
LC ClassPS362 .M94 2002

A Reader's Manifesto is a 2002 book by B. R. Myers[1] expanded from his essay in the July/August 2001 issue of The Atlantic Monthly magazine.[2] Myers criticized what he saw as the growing pretentiousness of contemporary American literary fiction,[3] especially in contrast to genre fiction.[4]