The Frontier is Gone, but Cowboys (and Girls) are Back
The Western is, quite frankly, a dead genre. One that basically doesn’t exist in contemporary literature. Hardcover sales (a proxy for “new” books since hardcover books are usually published first) of westerns haven’t reached more than 2,000 hardcovers as an entire genre in any week since 2020. The one exception you see on the graph below is a blip caus…
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