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I get soooo tired of these diatribes by the "literary" against all genre literature as not being worthy. I'm going to link to Cheryl Morgan's response, a little farther down, which is right on the money.

The original diatribe--and Kelman's defenders and critics--miss the point, which is that writing within a specific genre does not necessarily limit the imagination, or quality/beauty of the writing--only the skill of the writer does. There's plenty of crap "literary" writing out there. Interestingly, Kelman believes that genre fiction reviews drive out literary fiction reviews. Perhaps it does in the UK but that's certainly not the case in the US. Most genre fiction (except for the biggest bestsellers) get short shrift in the US.

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Don't just post here without reading Cheryl's response. It's too important to ignore.