New Grub Street and 1000 Other Books You Must Read Before You Die?📚🐰

Released in 1891, the Year of the Rabbit

Having just read Trent Dalton's new novel 'Lola in the Mirror', which came out this year (2023, the Year of the Rabbit) and listened to George Gissing's 1891 novel 'New Grub Street' being read to me on Apple Podcasts, I couldn't help thinking how Gissing's novel was about newspaper journalism and writing novels for a living in the late 1800s (and not to mention the subject of "love", as well), and Dalton is both a journalist and author of best-selling novels, as well as a non-fiction book about 'Love Stories', which gave him the inspiration for his new fictional novel -

Lola in the Mirror in the Year of the Rabbit?🐰👀

Died in 1903, the Year of the Rabbit

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Released in 2023, the Year of the Water Rabbit

I had been reading the books in '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' which I wanted to read this year and the next in chronological order, as they were listed in the book, and it was just sheer coincidence that I was up to 'New Grub Street' when reading Trent's new book.

I often wonder how successful Trent's novels would have been without the newspapers and his journalist mates behind his work?

Not that they aren't good reads, but I know other authors who are maybe just as good as Trent, but whose books don't get that kind of publicity his books get ... or sales.

Trent Dalton: Lola in the Mirror

"New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and journalistic circles of 1880s London. 

Gissing revised and shortened the novel for a French edition of 1901.

The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with hack literature; by Gissing's time, Grub Street itself no longer existed, though hack-writing certainly did. 

Its two central characters are a sharply contrasted pair of writers: Edwin Reardon, a novelist of some talent but limited commercial prospects, and a shy, cerebral man; and Jasper Milvain, a young journalist, hard-working and capable of generosity, but cynical and only semi-scrupulous about writing and its purpose in the modern (i.e. late Victorian) world."

Lola in the News?🌀📰