Monday, February 23, 2009

interlude: Thanks, NPR

From NPR today.

All writers are grave robbers, but genre fiction writers are the most brazen of all. Of necessity, to write a romance or mystery or horror story means sticking to the narrow confines of a formulaic plot; exhuming stock character types; and, generally, digging up literary turf that's been worked and reworked to the point of exhaustion
As opposed to all of those cutting edge Booker Prize award winners.

Then she goes on to praise the Twilight series.

Both Meyers and Simmons are inventive inheritors of the tale of terror, but Myers is the writer who really proves that "The Undead" is a term that refers not just to vampires, but to the supernatural genre itself.


Come on. Really? REALLY?

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