"It probably won’t surprise anyone to hear me say that boundaries between genres are not borders to be respected so much as walls to tear down. I can’t imagine being a writer of only one genre, and I find that most of the time, even works that I’m writing to fit a particular genre are influenced by my experience of other genres. I think that everything I write is “literary,” but we also have to understand that these terms have marketing implications and so on…"
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On straddling various genres in “2019 Contest: Interview with Fiction Judge Rivers Solomon” in BWR (University of Alabama; 2019 Apr 17)
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