original posting: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 16:58:49 JST "I think we all loathe the expressions _serious novel_ and _serious writer_, with the loaded implications that the wordworker who stresses action, the sheerly imaginative, or the fully nonexistent is somehow playing at writing and decidedly less talented. Worse, _mainstream_ and _serious story_ are often meant to convey that fantasists, detective story writers, and so on are less concerned with the important things." (p. 26) (from the essay "Plotting... read more
