I'm very happy to stick with 'false' literature. Just because
nobody's reading P J Wolfson's BODIES ARE DUST or James
Ross's THEY DON'T DANCE MUCH doesn't stop them being literary
classics. And who knows, maybe Hard Case or Stark Press or
Point Blank will republish them tomorrow and they'll become
'true' literature overnight.
Al
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Bludis Jack
<buildsnburns@...> wrote:
> All of that is opinion. But I have an even
stronger
> opinion: nothing is true literature (note the change
from
> literary to literature) unless it's still being read
50
> years after the author is dead. By that definition,
Agatha
> Christie is literature, no matter what I think of
her
> "literary merit."
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