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Continue to ChatThe Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. - Neil Cross from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/the-booker-thing-was-a-catalyst-for-me-in-a-bizarre-way-it-s-perceived-as-an-accolade-to-be-published-as-a