Things that perplex me about contemporary writing

One of the most disturbing trends in modern literature is the idea of serialization, using the same characters in book after book. Why not just write one large book to develop the theme fully in one place? The answer is that it's easier to do it this way than come up with new ideas.

Do you have a list of things you’d like to read? Don’t you?

The age of long novels is over. Our diminished attention span means that in order to be successful a novel must be less than 300 pages.

Why do people find it so necessary to write these epigrams as prologues at the beginning of their own poems? I can see maybe one by a famous author at the beginning of a long novel, but two at the beginning of each one-page poem? It does fill up space.

In today's world, are there still people who re-read a book?