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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 19

    Jeet Heer Retweeted David Grossman

    I don't understand how someone can think Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson and China Mieville aren't literary fiction as well as science fiction.https://twitter.com/davidgross_man/status/1526607707377176576 …

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    ladies, don't you just hate it when men... *check notes* read a diverse list of authors pic.twitter.com/EINLKiY81B
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      2. Miguel Montevista‏ @MiguelMontevist May 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        The City & The City isn't sci-fi or fantasy at all, for example.

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      3.  🏳️‍🌈 🗽 ✊ 🔥‏ @dirtylib666 May 19
        Replying to @MiguelMontevist @HeerJeet

        Sure it is. If you wanted to be pedantic it’s “speculative fiction” but it’s definitely a murder mystery in a unique fantasy world.

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      1. PeeonMusk‏ @SwitchGlitchmon May 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        b/c they mean realistic fiction, which is obviously by it's definition the least interesting form of fiction, so it's funny that they're mad that it's the least interesting, imo.

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      2. Tyler Smith‏ @tylersmith36 May 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Cause they aren’t the “classics”

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 19
        Replying to @tylersmith36

        Le Guin is in the Library of America, so as canonical as a recent writer can be.

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      1. Gunton Blurpus‏ @CentipedeMouse May 19
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        "Literary fiction" has a number of arbitrary, culturally located rules, such as no sci-fi / fantasy elements, with some modest exceptions (people keep forgetting that Beloved is a ghost story!) and/or it sneaks in via magical realism

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      1.  🏳️‍🌈 🗽 ✊ 🔥‏ @dirtylib666 May 19
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        I think these distinctions are pretty snooty but Robinson’s writing style is very nuts and bolts, minimal character interiority, very plot-centric. Rather Asimov-esque IMO. It’s very clearly non-“literary.” And I like him a lot!

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      1. Steve Kantrowitz‏ @skantrow May 19
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        Michael Chabon makes an argument about the origins (and absurdity) of these distinctions in "Trickster in a Suit of Lights."

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      1. radicaledward‏ @radicalydde May 19
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        Mieville and Le Guin have even published novels that are explicitly literary fiction. Also, Le Guin is one of the most underappreciated poets of the last fifty years.

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      1. Fuck everything ending in murder & children crying‏ @HollandoF May 19
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        Fuck everything ending in murder & children crying Retweeted Fuck everything ending in murder & children crying

        I ranted about this a few days ago.https://twitter.com/HollandoF/status/1526566803903766528 …

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        Fuck everything ending in murder & children crying @HollandoF
        the premise of this article is ...fine. The illustrative example it led off with enraged me. Author says (with veiled disdain): "But literary fiction, as opposed to non-fiction, history, or sci-fi, just doesn’t interest him." So, what's he reading? https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/men-not-reading-novels … [1]
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