". . . I think that as soon as a genre is given a name, or once it's identified and becomes recursive or self-aware, once those things happen, it dies. . . . Encased in genre we become what's expected . . .
"We use the word [genre], I think, to refer to a certain familiarity, or pre-conceived set of expectations - something the reader brings to the text. What the writer does from there, how they manipulate those expectations, is the fun part."
- David Peak and Ben Spivey, editors of Blue Square Press, interviewed by Joyelle McSweeney at Montevidayo.
Susan's house-hunting tour of Volcano
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Volcano, HI.
"I'm not interested. Trespassing isn't my thing," said Jill, before Evelyn
and I walked onto someone's property. There was a sales sign at ...
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