Excellent new Granta this quarter (89: The Factory). (Annoyingly www.granta.com is still showing the previous edition) . A good mix of fiction, social history and feature journalism around manufacturing, particularly its decline in UK.
Could be early signs of something analogous to 18th century pastoralism in literature: a celebration and nostalgia for industrialism, in the same way that writers once addressed the agrarian economy (of course, as discussed in Fitzroy, both were shit).
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i feel a nostalgia for economic history of the industrial revolution - turnpike lanes, canals, newcommen engines, the spinning jenny, the bessemer converter. still quite happy to have spent the majority of my life in the late 20th century mind you.
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