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title: "The Anxiety of Obsolescence"
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# The Anxiety of Obsolescence
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<img src="blog/img/Anxiety.png" alt="The Anxiety of Obsolescence book cover">
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[*The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television*](https://amzn.to/2qpHVyM) explores the conviction seen throughout the late twentieth century cultural sphere — not least among novelists — that television had killed the audience for serious fiction. This bit of mythology, I argue,
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[*The Anxiety of Obsolescence*](https://amzn.to/2qpHVyM) was published by [Vanderbilt University Press](https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826515209) in 2006 and was
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- Named an “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice, Association of College and Research Libraries, January 2008.
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- Selected as a “book of the month” by the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, October 2007.
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The text of [*The Anxiety of Obsolescence*](https://amzn.to/2qpHVyM) is also available in [commentable form online](http://anxietyofobsolescence.com).
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