the future of fiction?

[malignd at aol.com]

That would be ...  "some of it has ..."

-----Original Message-----
From: malignd at aol.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: the future of fiction?

    <<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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