6/2/2023 0 Comments The namesake novelHowever, it can be incredibly enlightening and introspective, especially for people going through hard times or trying to empathize with others who are. Lit fic has also historically gained a bad rap thanks to many wayward English classes where students didn’t love the books they were assigned in class and were turned off from the genre for a while.Ĭrystal Smith Paul, author of the novel Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? (out now), believes one of the most important things to understand about lit fic is that it may not feel like an escape in the same way that some other genres do. Its wide array of prose and plethora of serious topics can make it intimidating for even the most enthusiastic readers. Literary fiction, also commonly known as lit fic, is abstractly defined as writing that’s character-driven as opposed to plot-driven. But what if literary fiction is simply misunderstood? And which books can show the genre’s beginners the best of what it has to offer? Even many of the most avid readers of practically anything else - fantasy, romance, horror, you name it - steer clear of it. When it comes to book genres, there are few as polarizing as the world of literary fiction.
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