![]() ![]() Recent years have seen a gradual erosion of this wall separating genre and lit-fic. Read more Why you should give your books a break thrillers, romances, horror, science fiction, fantasy, in other words, books written quickly to tell an absorbing story but written without much style or grace.Ī piece of genre fiction has a clear and utilitarian purpose-you have that specific itch, for, say, a spy thriller, you purchase a Tom Clancy, digest it in the morning, forget it by evening, and even without a doctor's prescription, the book can do no harm. ![]() Fresh off the Booker win, with all doors opening for him, he turned in a direction few could have predicted, except a handful of insiders who were already aware of James's childhood interests-high fantasy.įrom a very traditionalist point of view, this looks like not just a mere thematic departure, but a breaking of the barrier between that which is somewhat snootily referred to as "literary fiction" or simply "literature," and "genre fiction," the latter understood to be belonging to a lower order of entertainment, i.e. When James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), he was on top of the world, and could have chosen to do just about anything next. Read more How Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ changed my life ![]()
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