Using B.R. Myers’s A Reader’s Manifesto (2002) as a starting point, we break down why the intractable purple prose of post-modern literary fiction is inferior to both classic literary fiction and commercial/pulp fiction. Why writing is meant for readers and not writers. In short, a lot of fun smack talk against snobs.

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