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Genre in the Mainstream

A series highlighting genre elements and books that are considered more literary or “mainstream.”

Genre In The Mainstream: Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!

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Genre in the Mainstream: Steven Millhauser’s Dangerous Laughter

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Genre in the Mainstream: Jonathan Lethem’s Gun, with Occasional Music

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Genre in the Mainstream: The Dystopia of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story

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Genre in the Mainstream: Jim Shepard’s Human Monsters

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Genre in the Mainstream: Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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Genre in the Mainstream: Richard Powers

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Genre in the Mainstream: José Saramago’s Blindness

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Genre in the Mainstream: Victor LaValle’s Big Machine

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Genre in the Mainstream: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad

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Genre in the Mainstream: The Kurt Vonnegut Question

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Genre in the Mainstream: The (Depressing) Science Fiction Novels That Cross Over

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Genre in the Mainstream: Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar

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Genre in the Mainstream: The Literary Merits of Potter

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Genre in the Mainstream: Does SFF Marginalize Characters?

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Genre in the Mainstream: The Shape Shifting Prose of Etgar Keret

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Genre in the Mainstream: The Secret History of Science Fiction

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Genre in the Mainstream: Summer 2011 Issue of The Paris Review

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Genre in the Mainstream: Pierre Boulle’s La Planète des singes

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Genre in the Mainstream: Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love

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“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

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