I'll believe people want difficult, original fiction when I
start seeing people reading William S. Burroughs and Steve
Erickson at the beach. Until then, I'm not holding my
breath.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Ed Lynskey <
e_lynskey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 6/30/08,
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>> "Readers of old-fashioned genre fiction will die
off,
>> and the next
>> generation will have so many different
entertainment
>> options that it's
>> hard to envision the same level of loyalty to
brand-name
>> formula fiction
>> coming off the conveyor belt every year. The
novelists who
>> are truly
>> novel will thrive; the rest will
struggle."
>>
>> Am I the only one who finds this asertion
ridiculous?
>>
> I agree it's farfetched, and it also strikes me as a
bleak place to live.
> How's that noir for you?
>
> Ed
>
>
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