Pynchon was here first. from a WSJ review. Slipstream fiction.

[Mark Kohut]

Yeahp. I keep going back to a point I've made: if the start of genre-defining is
in Aristotle's Poetics--and it is (in the West)--he hisself sez it is
all trying to label
what the Greek artists, dramatists, wrote!

If the origin of criticism is thus, follow the artists.



On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's almost as if "genres" and "fiction" were fluid, evolving things,
> instead of the solid reliable handles that professors, reviewers and critics
> have taught us to grasp.
>
> Nahh -- that's crazy talk.
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> '....weaving of the real and unreal is part of a fast-growing strain
>> of fiction some call slipstream. The label slipstream encompasses
>> writing that slips in and out of conventional genres, borrowing from
>> science fiction, fantasy and horror. The approach, sometimes also
>> called "fantastika," "interstitial" and "the New Weird," often
>> feathers the unexpected in with the ordinary, such as the hotel in Ms.
>> Link's new collection of stories "Get in Trouble," where there are
>> side-by-side conferences, one for dentists and another for superheroes
>> in save-the-world costumes and regalia....'
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
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