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Originally Posted by demonrail666

To be honest, in contemporary fiction, I'm less and less interested in the 'literature' stuff - for many of the reasons El Symbols points out. It is a bit of a club, written by and for the same kinds of people, expressing a similar world-view over and over again.

i blame the rise of the MFA degree and the emergence of the university as the main patron of the arts.

used to be literary fiction writing was the province of enlightened lawyers, doctors, pirates, adventurers, shut-ins, and various charlatans of the wilderness-- a fertile ground.

nowadays it's either journalists (squares) or MFA graduates who learned writing from other MFA graduates and teach writing to future MFA graduates, all of them publishing and reading themselves in their journals.

anyway, i should continue with the sumerians today. after that i'll go look for some pedro lemebel books and chronicles i haven't read yet.