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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.
No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.
Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.
Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
