rara-avis@icomm.ca wrote:
> This discussion illustrates a core belief of mine,
much-reviled by
> others...there is no "mainstream" of literature,
merely many
> genres, from which certain items are plucked and
filed under more
> vague labels when they can't be seen to fit the
currently
> fashionable genre labels, or, as with Ellroy's work
(as much as
> this Has happened with Ellroy's work), when they
become popular
> enough. TM
In my years as a public librarian I've come to see something
almost sinister about it. Why is Stephen King filed under
Fiction? Why is Robert Olen Butler's MR. SPACEMAN filed under
Fiction? Why is Jack Cady's THE NIGHT WE BURIED ROAD DOG
filed under Fiction?
Because, I'm beginning to think, the publishers feel that if
they put them in genre ghettos, where they properly belong,
they won't sell or circulate.
jess
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