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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   Matthias Warkus wrote:   
   > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) schrieb:   
   >> Matthias Warkus wrote:   
   >>> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) schrieb:   
   >>>> highfalutin' "lit'ry" SF writer of the sort that has a loud,   
   >>>> outspoken following but really isn't READABLE by ordinary people.   
   >>>   
   >>> More "ordinary people" read "lit'ry" fiction than SF, you know.   
   >>   
   >>     Outside of school? I doubt it. Unless you're classing Tom Clancy,   
   >> John Grisham, and romance novels as lit'ry, which I don't.   
   >   
   > So what's your definition of "lit'ry"?   
      
   	"I know it when I see it".   
      
   	It's NOT stuff that's published mainly as entertainment, or that's   
   regarded as mainly entertainment. It's the "general fiction" which   
   usually gets reviewed seriously in the NYT book review.   
      
      
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