The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...

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JOYCE Saricks, in her wonderful primer for librarians, Reader’s Advisory Service in the Public Library, argues that the ...

Literary fiction made trauma its default engine. Every protagonist carries a wound. Every backstory hides a crisis. But ...

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