Library book sale haul

Eleven books for twelve dollars. Money well spent.

Last month, I went to the Rolla (Missouri) Public Library’s fall book sale and came home with a nice haul of reading materials. It was $12 well spent, and the money went to support our local library.

Here’s what I got, and what I hope to read over the holidays and beyond:

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What makes fiction literary?

How do we define a style that many see as elitist, pretentious, and irrelevant?

What does the term “literary fiction” mean? What makes a story or essay or novel literary instead of … something else?

That’s a question I’ve been pondering for some time now. Lately, a series of pieces appearing online have attempted to get at an answer.

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