You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It__ perceived as an accolade to be published as a __iterary_ writer, but, actually, it__ pompous and it__ fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I__ always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It__ perceived as an accolade to be published as a __iterary_ writer, but, actually, it__ pompous and it__ fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I__ always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
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