The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

The Web ultimately is a medium used by real offline people, and as such, it'll probably be whatever we are.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to "art for the market's sake." It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.