We may be in the last days of narrative fiction. Writers of novels could be joining epic poets in the dustbin of literary history. Reading is being replaced by viewing, so the future belongs to cameramen, film makers, and animators. What can be done about the decline of serious reading?

In order to seduce the young we-never-read-books, we-only-look-at-stuff generation to the written word, we have created the photofiction literary genre where created-together photographic illustrations share the page equally with text.

The first book of this type, A Maine Yankee at Big Sur, includes more than a hundred related photographs of the Big Sur area. Trout Summer is the second book in this series. Once we use the art to lure the readers in the door, we hope to get them to say, "Novels, what a great idea." Like Socrates, we aspire to the corruption of youth.