![]() ![]() Question One: What are the great novels about Occupy Wall Street? Answer: They haven’t been written yet. ![]() Just how many decades is a matter of debate, but to use the gold standard, there was a 57-year gap between Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the publication of War and Peace.īut we’re really asking two separate questions here. It takes decades for writers to mine a historical moment for all it’s worth. Is it too soon for an Occupy Wall Street novel? OWS didn’t exist before last September. If you like typos, characters named Professor Sartorius, Admiral Orwell, and Sir Endymion Needham, and stunning revelations like “The flight from Beijing to New York was a long one,” then check out all 55 chapters and 2 appendices of Spiritus Mundi by Robert Sheppard. It was serialized on the OWS New York City General Assembly web site. ![]() Yes, there is already a novel about Occupy Wall Street. ![]()
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