(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 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 ...

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 ...

Literary agent Eric Smith of P.S. Literary represents young adult novels, genre blending literary fiction, nonfiction and other genres. Smith uses Twitter to make connections, and believes being an ...

If there’s a distinction between “genre fiction” and “literary fiction,” it’s certainly not that the former isn’t literary and the latter isn’t generic. It’s mostly that the generic conventions of the ...

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People who like to read action/adventure books are the most generous tippers, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 Americans who read frequently looked at the personality differences between ...

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 ...