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  "thread": {
    "id": 1590,
    "subject": "genre fiction a literary blemish?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-04-28T07:48:17+00:00",
    "last": "1999-04-28T07:48:17+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0026-0047@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Marc Coleman",
        "address": "marc.coleman at mwcia.org"
      },
      "date": "1999-04-28T07:48:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Fwd: genre fiction a literary blemish?",
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          "text": "Last week, New City asked the musical question \"Is genre fiction a literary\nblemish or good clean fun?\" For the piece, they interviewed some local\n\"genre\"\nauthors, including Gene Wolfe, who they introduced by saying, \"In the\nrealms of\nsci-fi, Wolfe is the shit.\"\nThus spake El Wolfo:\n\"Frankly, I like being discriminated against...I don't think we need a second\nliterary fiction category, we have that. It's addressed, frankly, to quite a\nsmall audience. The audience for literary fiction wants validation for the\nlives\nthey are leading right now. The audience for genre fiction wants assurance\nthat\nlives other than the lives they are leading are possible. My objection is\nescapism as a pejorative term. What's wrong with saying, 'You can get out'?\nNothing, if you ask me.\""
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