the future of fiction?

[malignd at aol.com]

<<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.>>

I've been talking about this stuff for months.  It's a real phenomenon, 
although I don't think for a second this stuff is written by black 
people, as though it were a form of folk art that sprung up on its own 
in the ghetto.  It's written by dime-a-word hacks, some of whom might 
be black.

In its defense some if has made me laugh out loud.
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