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“In this landscape, the white American man—unless he’s sufficiently self-flagellating—is obviously screwed.” So wrote the literary critic Alex Perez in 2024 on the state of such men who want to read and write fiction. And he’s not totally wrong: It seems that American men aren’t reading fiction anymore, and there’s some evidence that the male writer is also in trouble.
Peter Biles is the author of four books, most recently the short story collection Last November. His fiction and essays can be found in Plough, Dappled Things, The Washington Times, and others.
