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Shock Horror! Not only is there a genre where female authors dominate
james_nicoll
It's a popular genre!

Mission One: explain why YA fiction doesn't count as serious fiction.

Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there are comment count unavailable comment(s); comment here or there.

And the thought that any book by Earnest Hemingway, or some of Steinbeck's less :cough: baroque constructions, ever be considered YA is practically unconscionable. Speaking of writing works with simple words.

The Old Man and the Sea is a staple of high school English classes. So is The Pearl.


Steibeck's Pearl, that is. Teachers would be ill-advised to get it mixed up with the other one.