> [Writers] ... are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy,

> [Writers] ... are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, romance. And McSweeney's (quarterly concern and, less so, internet tendency)! Hit and miss, but they have such a cheerfully aggressive attitude about pollinating literary fiction with genre fiction with a complete disdain for works of literature-for-literature's-sake.