Here’s a roundup of news surrounding the New Yorker’s science fiction issue
- Easy Writers: Guilty pleasures without guilt (subscription only)
- Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology (Lev Grossman’s response at TIME)
- The New Yorker speaks with four writers featured in the issue
- Weekend Edition interviews Jennifer Egan about tweeting her story from the issue
- Ryan Britt at Tor reviews the issue for his “Genre in the Mainstream” column
- Wired also reviews the issue
- io9 talks about what it means that the New Yorker and Tin House both have a scifi issue
- The Slate Culture Gabfest discusses literary fiction vs. genre fiction in reference to the New Yorker article and Lev Grossman’s response
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