• For the longest time, there was little ambiguity between literary fiction and genre fiction: one was good for you, one simply tasted good.

    NEWYORKER: Easy Writers

  • Genre fiction, we are told, is easily digested but nutrition-free fluff, whilst literary fiction is harder to swallow but better for you, like broccoli.

    FORBES: Who Reviews The Reviewers?

  • ABSTRACT:A CRITIC AT LARGE about guilty pleasures and genre fiction.

    NEWYORKER: Easy Writers

  • Well, what attracted you to the science-fiction genre in the first place?

    NPR: A Robert Wise Reprise

  • Alexandra Hamlet, who won awards for her first novel, a Cold War thriller called The Right Guard, says terrorism has created a new fiction genre - and describes her own work as "intellectual suspense".

    BBC: Sherlock to CSI: Mystery writers seek science accuracy

  • "I have a strong objection to the genre of mixing fact with fiction, " said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League.

    CNN: 'Angels & Demons' actors: What controversy?

  • Westerns, Regency romances, film noir: those are genres kinds of stories with specific categories of subjects and conventions for their content and presentation. (Stories about superheroes are a genre, too.) Prose fiction, sculpture, video: those, like comics, are media forms of expression that have few or no rules regarding their content other than the very broad ones imposed on them by their form.

    NPR: More Recommendations

  • "It is historical fiction -- a noble genre going back to Shakespeare and well before -- not history, " he said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The romance genre encompassing a range of fiction types, from traditional romance to Christian romance, Amish romance and erotica makes up 17% of sales of adult fiction, says Brent Lewis, Harlequin's executive vice president for digital.

    WSJ: How Kindle, Nook and iPad Fuel Sales of Erotica for Women

  • According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.

    NEWYORKER: The Cosmic Menagerie

  • Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.

    WSJ: Fiction as Authentic as Fact | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Masterpiece by Danny Heitman

  • The first film, which was written and directed by James Cameron, is one of the genre-movie classics of the eighties: a lean, witty science-fiction movie without great pretensions to significance.

    NEWYORKER: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  • It's easy to find books described as "nonfiction that reads like fiction" on the web, but almost impossible to find "fiction that reads like nonfiction, " although I believe such a genre exists.

    WSJ: Dear Book Lover: Fiction that Reads Like Nonfiction

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