Posts Tagged ‘genre’

Goodread Review: Riddley Walker (read in December of 2006)

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Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban My rating: 5 of 5 stars I discovered Riddley Walker by attempting, and totally failing, to finish a book that I’d heard rip-roaringly good things about, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. To be fair, I was only attracted to Cloud Atlas because I’d heard it featured a dystopia. I was fresh [...]

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Read more | Comments (5) | Jan 20, 2010

On Not Writing for Grown-Ups

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There’s great article by Mary Pearson on tor.com right now on YA literature. Who writes it? People like me. People who find the teen years fascinating and the nuances of teen literature a challenge. I am not writing it as “practice” so I can one day write an adult book (I am asked that a [...]

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Read more | Comments (4) | Sep 11, 2009

To be fair:

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Tonaya Thompson, author of the Tin House blog post on genre, posts a rather fair follow-up: And I don’t care if you have a story about Merlin in a space rodeo lassoing a pretty lady. If it’s good, you’re going to have to trust me that I’ll know it. Even if I don’t like it. [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 18, 2009

Tin House Editor Puts Foot in Mouth

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(via HTMLGIANT) Tin House readers a bunch of snobs*: I think you know genre fiction when you read it. My personal definition goes something like this: fiction that almost purposefully avoids the literary, in hopes of keeping the reader (or the writer, for that matter) from having to “work” too hard. It also tends to [...]

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Read more | Comments (12) | Aug 16, 2009