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[owlectomy]

WANTED: A moratorium on people claiming that literary fiction is nothing but boring plotless stories of sad failed writers and academics having sad affairs.

At this point I've heard it repeated so many times that whatever grain of truth it had in it has worn off. And how is it different from claiming that fantasy is nothing but reactionary daydreaming about dragons and poor boys who are secretly the heir to the throne?

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(Not to mention, of course, something can be extremly badly written and still be in the genre of literary fiction -- it's just that it's not going to be badly written in the same way as a James Patterson thriller.)