[2004] There's a long fascinating discourse in there about genre vs literary fiction that's well worth a read. I read it when that Q&A was oroginally posted (

[2004] There's a long fascinating discourse in there about genre vs literary fiction that's well worth a read. I read it when that Q&A was oroginally posted (in those heady days when /. was my poison of choice instead of HN) and could never find it again because I got Neal Stephenson mixed up with Neil Gaiman! So I'm very glad to see it here and have a chance to re-read it.