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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
To be perfectly fair, I find the label "literary fiction" to be equally useless. One person's pretentiousness is another's insightfulness or cutting commentary. Pretension is just as subjective as the notion of Mainstream Writing or Young Adult.
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Well, mainstream writing is an easy category to define: It's whatever doesn't clearly fit any of the classic genres.
If it's neither romance, western, horror, mystery, or SF&F it has to be *something*... Mainstream!
Beyond that, if the prose or metatext is more important than the story, then it's litfic.
