Readers of literary fiction quit books more often and tend skip around between books.
These producers took as their inspiration literary fiction and Broadway drama, not serial movies or radio shows.
"I needed to have the techniques of literary fiction to have a chance of explaining this, " he says.
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For the longest time, there was little ambiguity between literary fiction and genre fiction: one was good for you, one simply tasted good.
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.
Science-fiction, romance and crime-fiction fans often read more books more quickly than readers of literary fiction do, and finish most of the books they start.
However, literary science fiction has a long history with examining the roles of gender in the future.
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Sid consults a colonial historian who dismisses it as fraudulent, though as fiction, he adds, it might win literary prizes.
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Last year, after a brief controversy flared among the literary elite, I raised the question: Are male fiction writers taken more seriously than their female counterparts?
This was obviously a case for a committee of literary detectives or for a study of the criminal mind at work on fiction.
Literary writers like Colson Whitehead and Michael Chabon have experimented with horror and science-fiction themes.
I'm a narrative non-fiction writer and looking for something to read that tends towards the more literary side of it rather than the journalistic side.
Yet non-fiction is - well, it dominates the market and there's a lot of non-fiction being written, almost all of it journalism, and publishers want something literary I think.
In the four centuries or so since the first operas were written, operatic stories have been inspired by an astonishing array of literary sources from Nordic legends and Greek classics, to romance novels and historical fiction.
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