Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books.
Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.
I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.
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