With the pop culture spotlight on genre books such as Heated Rivalry and Project Hail Mary, there has been some heated discourse about what constitutes “good writing.”

Join Bri and Mer as they discuss genre expectations, why those don’t equate to low standards, and whether the current state of Capital L literary fiction is as dire as pearl-clutchers might have you believe.

Come for the discussion on whether forgoing quotation marks is deeply artistic or deeply annoying and stay for advice on how to level up your own prose. 

Books we recommend in this episode: 

The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott

Heated Rivalry series by Rachel Reid

Crux by Gabriel Tallent

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu 

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