post-genre extra-genreThanks for reading Chlorophyll & Hemoglobin! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. anti-genre [prefix]-genre genre escaping genre It has always been a kind of aesthetic goal of sorts to write literature that is disguised as genre fiction. I don’t know why. I think I derive some kind of pleasure from thwarting anyone out there who thinks they’re too good to read genre fiction. So I want to hide certain nutritious qualities inside a chocolate candy coating. Or, “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.”
I like that comment about plot. That "literary" types don't like plot because life is plotless and literature should be close to "life" as it really is... Well... I don't read to enjoy a carbon copy of real life, thank you very much. I read to be pulled out of real life into a world of imagination or distortion of reality. That reminds me of these arty, unwatchable movies that capture the minutiae of a housewife's life. Hey, give me "Jaws" anytime, lol! I wish the notion of genre not being literature was long dead and buried. Anybody who snubs John Le Carré because he wrote "spy novels" is a blooming idiot.
FUCK GENRE
I like that comment about plot. That "literary" types don't like plot because life is plotless and literature should be close to "life" as it really is... Well... I don't read to enjoy a carbon copy of real life, thank you very much. I read to be pulled out of real life into a world of imagination or distortion of reality. That reminds me of these arty, unwatchable movies that capture the minutiae of a housewife's life. Hey, give me "Jaws" anytime, lol! I wish the notion of genre not being literature was long dead and buried. Anybody who snubs John Le Carré because he wrote "spy novels" is a blooming idiot.