They’ll say, I don’t read fiction because it isn’t real. This is incredibly naive.
In a recent interview with The Paris Review, Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the merits of genre writing and the importance of fiction as a vehicle for recognition.
A genre is a form, in a sense, and that can lead you to ideas that you would not have just thought up if you were working in an undefined field. It must have something to do with the way our minds are constructed.
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