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Michael Chabon interviewed at the LAT about genre.
Where did this bias against work created for a popular audience come from?
In all fairness, it came from the fact that the vast preponderance of art created for a mass audience is crap. It’s impossible to ignore that. But the vast preponderance of work written as literary art is high-toned crap. The proportion may settle down in the neighborhood of 90/10 — Sturgeon’s Law said that 90% of everything is crud.
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July 28th, 2008 at 8:12 am
A number of years ago, when I first read Theodore Sturgeon’s quote, I thought: “Jeez, that’s harsh.”. And yet, it’s not a bad (read: negative) approach to viewing the marketplace (either for books, or films, etc..), especially when it’s become so much about volume rather than quality.