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

[Joseph Tracy]

 Funny sentence. Talk crazy to me.
On Feb 6, 2015, at 6:51 AM, Monte Davis 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....'
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