The Recalcitrant Scrivener: Literary What, Literary Who?

The Recalcitrant Scrivener: Literary What, Literary Who?

A necessary blog for those interested in "literary fiction," as interpreted by the publishing industry and others who believe in writing by the rules.

My favorite par (so close to me heart):

"... I would like to say that writing about one’s personal relationships or the personal relationships of one’s characters does not necessarily make a literary novel. Writing about the new immigrant experience isn’t essentially literary, nor is writing about art, politics, race, or technology. Descriptions of outlandish wealth, grinding poverty, outré sexuality, intravenous drug use, or simple drunkenness do not necessarily make literature. How one writes about these things is what counts."