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Literally Literary
I came here today thinking I wanted to write about genre fiction, and why it gets such a bad rap from most “literary” writers. But then, as I stuck those scare quotes around the word “literary”, I realized that was my story… what the hell does literary really mean? Literary is a slippery little word [...]
Criminal Books…
Not to be confused with crime fiction, which is an entirely different concept. My dear, talented friend and lit-blogger Maitresse recently translated this commentary by Christophe Claro on the Salon du Livre, and I found it a really compelling way to think about reading. Why should a book not lead one to commit a crime, [...]