tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post2441179445136542502..comments2023-09-12T06:18:38.552-04:00Comments on The World in the Satin Bag: It's Still Not New (Literary Genre Fiction -- Pah!)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-55046686962838637332011-09-03T17:17:27.073-04:002011-09-03T17:17:27.073-04:00Thanks, Ben. Glad you thought it was good. I try...Thanks, Ben. Glad you thought it was good. I try not to talk about these issues very often, because they do have a tendency to get repetitive. But every once in a while, it seems important to acknowledge why these kinds of things keep happening...<br /><br />I should also note that to say that once needs "different skills" to write "literary fiction" is as meaningless as saying you need different skills to write "short stories" versus "novels." Neither form is superior. Both forms interplay (though obviously there aren't many novels which are essentially just short stories, but you get what I mean).<br /><br />It's all just silly nonsense.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33813337.post-61892067156636445492011-09-03T15:09:03.541-04:002011-09-03T15:09:03.541-04:00Good post, Shaun. I really hate the assumption tha...Good post, Shaun. I really hate the assumption that "genre" has yet to be "literary," and that only these Very Literary Fellows (they're probably all straight white men) can do it for us. I also hate that the character novel is assumed to be of more literary merit in the first place - or to have been written by someone with more literary skills - than genre. After all, making some literature Not-Literature is a ridiculous fallacy.Ben Godbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450579203940093977noreply@blogger.com