Hil, you make me feel better. Because, really, my complete and utter lack of comprehension of these distinctions make me feel quite illiterate, but I know you're not. So I'm saved.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2003 7:25:15 pm PST #3439 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Feb 09, 2003 7:29:12 pm PST #3440 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Giles isn't sexy.
Do I have to say it again?
My favorite Lizard, CHAIRS find Giles sexy!
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 09, 2003 7:32:57 pm PST #3441 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I'M NOT A CHAIR!
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2003 7:33:58 pm PST #3442 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, no, because then you'd be able to see what's so terribly obvious.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 09, 2003 7:34:37 pm PST #3443 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
cereal:
Really, I mean, it's circular. Is Octavia Bulter a literary-fiction writer? Is Alex Shakar?
Steph L. - Feb 09, 2003 7:34:41 pm PST #3444 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
No, you are a sneak who has a verrrrrry interesting interest on LJ...
And here I thought there was only one LJer who listed "teppy" as an interest...
Consuela - Feb 09, 2003 7:35:01 pm PST #3445 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
ita, you're not illiterate.
The definition of "literary fiction" is a complete construct, made up by the publishing industry. I can take any novel you point at as "literary fiction" and make an argument that it belongs in another genre, and vice versa. Just like the hard lines around the ghettoes of "romance", "mystery", and "science fiction/fantasy", the line around "literary fiction" is very very hazy.
Dunnett's stuff was once filed exclusively under Romance. Then Historical Fiction. Now it's Literature. WTF? Same books, different shelf.
How come Auel gets to be in literature but Neal Stephenson is science fiction? I'd say "Cryptonomicon" is closer to scientific plausibility than "The Clan of the Cave Bear". ::shrugs and wanders off to find a beer::
Sophia Brooks - Feb 09, 2003 7:37:33 pm PST #3446 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Personally, I define "literary fiction" as books that come out in trade paperback with the very matter covers.
I think literary fiction is just what would be called a novel or general fiction..
Most store which divde between literature and fiction use age as a divide-- new stuff is fiction, old stuff is literature.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 09, 2003 7:38:07 pm PST #3447 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
No, you are a sneak who has a verrrrrry interesting interest on LJ...
t looks innocent
Hmm?
And here I thought there was only one LJer who listed "teppy" as an interest...
Well, I mean, I couldn't let it be a unique interest.
But? Btw? If anyone else hits "marrying fayjay" as an interest I WILL kill you. ('Cause that's... trying something.) Mine mine mine.
Well, no, because then you'd be able to see what's so terribly obvious.
WOOD has better brains than I do.
See? See? This is why you should never get into arguments with me! It ends in tears! For me!
P.M. Marc - Feb 09, 2003 8:00:53 pm PST #3448 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think my OTP is now Flame-Thrower/My Hand.
Someone remind me to breathe? And to remember it's just a list, it's just a list, and that idiots are everywhere, and they are loud, and they all want things done the way they were done in their previous fandoms, and they'll never shut up about it, and I should just fucking go no mail until I've time to read?