oh YAY
Elizabeth Merrick is guestblogging for Jessa Crispin today at Blog of a Bookslut. Luckily it's only for the day, or I might have to temporarily remove Bookslut from my aggregator. And this is an example of why:
Why are the big movies that get made out of "novels" by women about being an assistant or a nanny...
Last time I checked, a novel was a work of extended fictional narrative in prose. So just because it isn't to your taste, or even if you ridiculously think the genre it's in subjugates the position of women and women writers, or even if it's terribly writing and plotting...it's still a novel. In fact, the original definition of a novel was a short(er) tale of romance, which is closer to the despised genres of romance and chick lit than the literary novel.
I have very little patience for militant anything :D
Why are the big movies that get made out of "novels" by women about being an assistant or a nanny...
Last time I checked, a novel was a work of extended fictional narrative in prose. So just because it isn't to your taste, or even if you ridiculously think the genre it's in subjugates the position of women and women writers, or even if it's terribly writing and plotting...it's still a novel. In fact, the original definition of a novel was a short(er) tale of romance, which is closer to the despised genres of romance and chick lit than the literary novel.
I have very little patience for militant anything :D