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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And by "literary guy" rant you mean "crime fiction girl" rant? 
No. She's not claiming Rowling should quit because she's lowering the literary bar. She's saying Rowling should stay out of her genre so her own work has a btter chance of getting noticed. Did you even read the same article? |
Agreed, she's she's not exactly a shining light of high-brow literature. She's just angry because someone else is getting sales that she thinks are her property. And even if it was a "literary guy" rant, "popular literature" has always been, well, popular. That's the reason they call it popular. But I suppose if you stare at the alleged high-brow literature until your eyes bleed, you'll start to see the emperor's new clothes too.
The alleged high-brow literature would be worse off if the popular literature were done away with. Take away the books that people actually enjoy reading, and reading stops.