the future of fiction?

[Charles Albert]

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On 4/22/07, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 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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