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This kind of snobbery is tiresome, and you see a lot of it from MFA types.
The truth is that there is very, very little “literary fiction” that is superior to Stephen King.
Like, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy are better than Stephen King, but there hasn’t been a writer on that level since David Foster Wallace.
Every year there are a dozen novels that are supposed to be important about middle-aged women having sexual awakenings or gay guys smoking cigarettes in Dublin or the experience of race in our cultural moment, and they’re all just noise that will be instantly forgotten. “IT” was a banger.
Graham@GrahamC47
I took a creative writing class in 2016 where the professor lamented that too many people get to “Stephen King” levels of reading and stop there. I’d really like to talk to him now, things seem to have gotten so much worse on that front.
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