THE SMART TRICK OF NOVEL THAT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING

Within an interview, John Updike lamented that "the class of 'literary fiction' has sprung up recently to torment people like me who just set out to compose textbooks, and if any individual wanted to read them, terrific, the greater the merrier ... I'm a genre writer of a sort. I produce literary fiction, which can be like spy fiction or chick lit.