I think I'll leave the ebook stuff alone. That's b...

2009-04-28T21:20:00.000-07:00

I think I'll leave the ebook stuff alone. That's been a third rail, and passionate as I am about the need for for viable e-biz models, I will refrain from ranting on that subject. For now.

But more interesting to me is the distinction, if there is one, between boychik lit as a genre and literary fiction. Genre is a way of categorizing themes and audiences. It's useful primarily as a marketing tool. But certainly there are genre works that rise to the level of literature. Dashiel Hammet's Thin Man, for example. I coined "boychik lit" in hopes of creating a hipper fratire, one of the newer genres. But in fact both terms are new ways of thinking about old themes. Portnoy's Complaint is certainly boychik lit, if not fratire. Catcher in the Rye could be a model for fratire.

So, yes, Moby Dick is a seafaring adventure novel, and Gone With the Wind could have been one helluva bodice-ripper.

As if anyone gives a damn.

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