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Ranked the top writing university in the nation, the University of Iowa’s professors of English and creative writing offer a plethora of unique courses, tackling special topics both in the classroom ...

The debate between literary fiction and genre fiction is a long-standing one. Genre fiction is accused of being insignificant and shallow while literary fiction is called pretentious and boring. There ...

Last Thursday, September 13, 2012, Le Poisson Rouge hosted a dynamic, cross-genre reading series called Literary Death Match at 7 P.M. The reading, called an “episode” by the series’ creator, Adrian ...

If there’s a distinction between “genre fiction” and “literary fiction,” it’s certainly not that the former isn’t literary and the latter isn’t generic. It’s mostly that the generic conventions of the ...

The children’s novel, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl (1916–1990) combines the conventions of children’s fiction with a medieval morality play, in which obvious cases of vice are ...

Growing up, when I would throw a tantrum or be upset, my parents would always tell me not to be "melodramatic," which roughly translated into "stop being a brat." But what if I told you there was a ...