The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
By embracing a label such as 'non-fiction,' the creative writing community has signaled to the world that what goes on in this genre is at best utilitarian and at worst an utter mystery. We have segregated the genre from art.