I have rarely seen a set of descriptions that had me thinking, “bullshit, bullshit, bullshit!” so steadily. https://nybookeditors.com/2018/07/what-is-literary-fiction/
I’d actually kind of like a useful description of literary fiction rather than one that just pats itself on the back for not being like that (badly misdescribed) genre stuff.
More bullshit, from someone who hasn’t paid any attention to publishing the past several decades. https://www.novel-writing-help.com/literary-fiction.html
But I do like the honesty of “literary fiction has different covers."
Dear God, literary fiction is not “nearly exclusively novels,” you moron. Even I know that.
And promising to describe literary fiction by “what it’s not” just sets you up to shit on genre again, but not talk about mainstream fiction at all, I bet.
And promising to describe literary fiction by “what it’s not” just sets you up to shit on genre again, but not talk about mainstream fiction at all, I bet.