Courting Tomorrow’s Classics
Welcome to the New Classics!
“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.” –Edith Wharton
When the classics are mentioned, often assumed that the speaker means those books sitting on your dusty shelf never having been read, but still put on display because those are the books you ought to be familiar with and no, reading the Sparknotes summaries doesn’t count.
But how does a classic become classic? Who decides what books transcend time to remain relevant to a modern audience? Is a classic a very popular book, a very well-written book, or both? After all, every classic was simply a new, unknown book at one point.
With Fictionista Workshop’s New Classics series, post-modern novels will be explored and reviewed in-depth, making the argument that a book on the shelf of new releases could one day be found on a list of classic literature for its themes, quality, unique perspective, or more.
What are we reviewing?
Every month, our book reviewers will either be assigned or select a new classic book to review, and will aim to shed light on the work, discussing the book’s strengths and weaknesses, why or why not they enjoyed it, and how it may still be relevant in the future and worthy of being considered a new classic. Our volunteers will submit their objective and honest reviews to Fictionista Workshop to share with the entire community.
Interested in reviewing?
If you would like to share your love of literature or discover the new classics, sign up today to court the classics and enjoy post-modern Western literature with us! If there’s a new classic you want to see reviewed, email us at fictionistawksp@gmail.com.
