When I go to a bookstore, after browsing the tables in the front where the new releases are, I go to the fiction section. I'm not sure if I like it when this part of the store is called "literature" or even "fiction/literature". Who decides what belongs there? If the only choice is "literature" where do they put the Sophie Kinsella books?
The reason I go to the section is to engage in day-dreaming. If -- when -- if I ever publish a novel, where would it be on the shelf? Would I be on a top shelf? Near the back of the store in poor light? And who would be on either side of me? I'm always happy when my imaginery space is right between Flannery O'Conner and John O'Hara.
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