March 9, 2015  on Electric Lit

Without the critical deference given to ‘realist fiction,’ that 19th C. reactionary trend that has dominated Establishment Literary Fiction (think: James Wood) the genre walls would crumble–all of them, for they exist primarily on one side–to defend the imagined purity of Literature, and on the other, to defend against it’s stultified pretensions.  And while we’re at it, lets break down the walls between poetry and prose, a distinction that hardly existed before the emergence of the novel. All real literature is poetry!

Here’s to the future of Transfiction!