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 ...
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...
The strangely short history of a publishing niche. The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, I’m often ...
It has been called a movement, a genre, a cultural aesthetic. Afrofuturism is all of those, but it's also more than a promise that Black people exist in the future. It's more complex than taking ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about books, publishing, authors and readers Literary agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary represents young adult novels, ...
Elizabeth Conte loves 19th century literature. There’s just something about it, Conte said in a recent interview. Works of that time had a certain drama, romance and a literary flair that she’s not ...
From the moment a profile of him appeared in the New York Times late last month, it was obvious Kazuo Ishiguro was going to be getting grief. “Will readers follow me into this?” the British novelist ...
You have your Southern Gothic tales and your Westerns, the San Francisco beats and the New York poets — but what is the literary tradition of the Midwest? It’s a hazy question: People don’t think of ...
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