Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically

Re:Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically by pessimizer on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:24AM (#15939018)

Literary fiction as opposed to genre fiction. Literary fiction consists of pointless books about the middle class, by the middle class; genre fiction is everything else.

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Re:Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically by malloryerik on Saturday December 16, 2017 @07:00AM (#15939152)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dostoevsky, Hermann Hesse, Charlotte Bronte, Albert Camus, Philip Roth, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Cervantes, Hemingway, George Orwell, JD Salinger, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, (arguably) Homer, Goethe, Harper Lee, and on and on... isn't this is all "literary fiction"?

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Re:Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically by igravious on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:37AM (#15939066)

Here's a quote from a bestselling non-fiction work, “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.”

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Re:Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically by ci5er on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:56AM (#15939132)

I'm not sure that the Jubilee Bible was best selling.

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Re:Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramatically by axedwool on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:34AM (#15939055)

Hey, let's be fair. Sometimes they're resentful books about the upper class, by the middle class.

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