I can’t say I actually know much about the concept/reality of “Grub Street,” but I looked it up. Apparently, it’s both a real street in London traditionally housing the literary and poetic districts. But over time, it came more so to mean a more pejorative term for hack-writing and cheap literary output. In this novel, it’s both again. The novel focuses on the prevailing question of whether or not writing should be geared toward a reading audience (ie a paying audience) or work more toward […]