My eyebrows automatically raise when I hear anyone say “Literary vs Genre fiction.” A “genre” is a box we put a story into, based on the story’s plot and tropes, and to classify everything that isn’t literary as “genre,” seems a bit silly and snobbish.
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My eyebrows automatically raise when I hear anyone say “Literary vs Genre fiction.” A “genre” is a box we put a story into, based on the story’s plot and tropes, and to classify everything that isn’t literary as “genre,” seems a bit silly and snobbish.