Recent Reading: Big Time by Jordan Prosser
There's something almost irresistibly appealing about the musical biopic. It combines melodrama and genuine accomplishment. It conveys profound importance—this is about music, after all, the kind of music that worms its way into people's minds and hearts and becomes part of the set dressing of their psyches—while at the same time being unbelievably trivial and soapy, reveling in the bed-hopping and drug habits of a bunch of self-absorbed people of moderate talent. It was almost inevitable that fiction writers would begin embracing the form, as seen in books-turned-TV-series like Daisy Jones and the Six , but I don't think I expected science fiction to get in on the action. Or, at least, not in the form that Jordan Prosser has done in his debut novel Big Time , which is making its way to UK publishers this year after its Australian publication in 2024. For Prosser, the gargantuan importance of art, and the silliness of the people who make it, are both shades with which he i...