The stupidest thing you will read all week -- from the NYTBR, natch

A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star. It invites forgivable prurience: What is that relationshiplike? Granted the intellectual’s hit hanky-panky pay dirt, but what’s in it for the porn star? Conversation? Ideas? Deconstruction?

Derp. In one analogy, (The Cod is no enemy of analogy, beetubs), this Glen Duncan fellow reveals his total incomprehnsion of literary fiction, genre fiction, intellectuals, dating, and sex work. And "hanky-panky pay dirt"? Is this a Playboy Advisor from 1970? And he drops "deconstruction" like Hilton Kramer had a column in Highlights. But the good news is that Colson Whitehead, consistently the best thing about Twitter, wrote a book with zombies. Fuck this guy in the Times, want you some Colson Whitehead zombie novel? Get you some. 

Comments

[Jette]

Excuse the irrelevance, but may I just say how delightful it is to see someone else using the word "natch" in print. Thank you.

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