the future of fiction?

[Daniel Harper]

On a related note, did you ever look through the African American fiction 
section of your local bookstore? It's all gangstas and thugs and pimps and 
hos -- I'm not a member of the mentioned ethnic group, but if I was I'd be 
insulted just walking past.

That these are pretty much all written by African-American authors only makes 
it worse.

On Saturday 21 April 2007 11:44, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> I had exactly the same reaction: that it was chick-lit in disguise;
> chick-lit (and chick-flix) being an insidious form of sexism in typecasting
> women as people who are interested primarily in romance, domestic stuff,
> shop-'til-you-drop crap, etc.  The publicity with Pessl chatting about food
> and her husband exactly played into that mentality.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> >From: bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >
> >
> >I'd avoided the book after reading a very brief review because it
> >sounded like some kind of specialty variation on "chic-lit" (gag).
> >But a friend whose taste I generally trust recommended it so I'm now
> >about 1/3 through it.   My first impression was correct.   I'm going
> >to try to finish it but if it wasn't for my friend's recommendation I
> >wouldn't bother.

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--Daniel Harper
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