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Rushdie: Novel Out, TV In
I suppose Salman Rushdie is absolutely right:
Salman Rushdie is to make a sci-fi television series in the belief that quality TV drama has taken over from film and the novel as the best way of widely communicating ideas and stories.
All the more reason for novelists to stop with the dull kind of boilerplate realist lit and write something that could only exist in book form.
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I enjoy quality TV as much as the next guy, but it irks me every time somebody calls a TV show “novelistic,” because it assumes that the only difference between the two mediums is that one is visual and one is text. Novels do certain things TV can’t do well, or at all, but because they can both handle longer stories with multiple characters there’s some kind of equivalency between them.
I so agree. The comparisons end up being superficial, flattening out what makes novels and tv shows great in their own way.
By the way, Rushdie had already said that he was misquoted in that Guardian article.