30 - Literary Fiction

Daystar and Alexander discuss literary fiction, its values and failure modes, and its similarities and differences from rational fiction.
Co-hosted by Alexander Wales

With thanks to Tim Yarbrough for the Intro/Outro music, G.A.T.O Must Be Respected

Links Watchmen by Alan Moore Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gabbie The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut White Noise, Don DeLillo The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss FLEEP, by Jason Shiga House of Leaves by  Mark Z. Danielewski The Magicians by Lev Grossman The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Kafka by the Shore by Haruki Murakami Time Stamps 01:20 What Qualifies as Literary Fiction?
15:06 Pretentiousness
25: 03 Literary Fiction and Rational Fiction
35:50 Writing Literary Fiction
45:43 Recommendations
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