HOW MUCH YOU NEED TO EXPECT YOU'LL PAY FOR A GOOD LITERARY FICTION

Get it from George Orwell, who lived because of the maxim “in no way use a sophisticated phrase when a straightforward 1 will do” — or Hemingway, whose famously lean prose has taught generations of writers that less is much more. Basically, even though chances are you'll affiliate literary fiction with insufferable purple prose, it doesn’t