{
  "id": 6396503,
  "title": "Reading sentences to ponder",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/reading-sentences-to-ponder",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-09T07:06:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Marginal Revolution",
    "slug": "marginal-revolution",
    "url": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/sentences-to-ponder-141.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In 2015, 6 of the top 25 bestselling hardcover books—this is a not-perfect but useful proxy for new books published—were fiction. In 2025, 18 of the top 25 hardcover books were fiction, meaning only 7 were nonfiction, almost an exact inversion of ten years ago. From Sean Delone, via David Wallace-Wells. The post Reading sentences to ponder appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .",
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  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}