12.5: Literary Fiction
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley
This week we talk about the genre of Literary Fiction. Our first hurdle is the word “literary” whose use in this context can imply that all other genres are somehow not literature. In that vein, then, we’re talking about mainstream, or “non-genre” fiction which is crafted with close attention to the finer points of the prose. After framing our discussion, we dive into the nuts and bolts of writing in the Literary Fiction genre.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Andrew Twiss, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Homework: You drive your spouse to the airport and watch them fly away on a trip. Then you go straight home, and find them there in the house, sitting at the computer…
Thing of the week: Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie (print and ebook available here).
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