17 November 2014
Should young-adult, science fiction, and fantasy novels be considered works of literature? Is The Hunger Games a work of art? Does anyone care? Over the last couple of years, a handful of authors have pitched their tents in the no man's land between "genre fiction" and "pure literature." But the more intense the genre wars become, the more difficult it is to understand what it's all about. Is it a question of what we should read? Is it a critical discussion about what counts as "literary quality" writing? Or is it a war of words over which books should be published?