I enjoyed Elaine Castillo’s first novel, America Is Not the Heart (in part because of my conviction that she has written fanfiction in her life; this is based on nothing), and I am ravenously excited to read her new book of literary criticism, How to Read Now. I will put the relevant link first so that y’all can share my excitement. Here are the links! “My issue with how we read is as much an existential grievance as it is a labor dispute.” Elaine Castillo addresses the foundation of white supremacy in the literary world, making me VERY excited to read…
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Some time ago, when my Twitter TL was having many conversations about genre fiction and fanfiction and literary fiction, and I was chatting to my brilliant friend Maureen about how to solve genre wars, I got the notion of writing some posts with litfic recommendations for lovers of fanfiction. Then, as tends to happen, I got distracted by life events and the world being on fire and I didn’t do anything about it. BUT. Then I read this extremely litficcy book, America Is Not the Heart, by Elaine Castillo, and when I say extremely litficcy you should understand that I…
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