Tag Archives: Genre trouble

Genre Trouble: Twilight and the New Vampire Story

Posted on June 29, 2012 by epbeaumont

The good news about being a professional writer is that all sorts of oddball things become tax deductible: book purchases (market research), movie tickets (review essays), office supplies, the new computer (equipment). The bad news: I have to read books … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: urban fantasy (the city as character)

Posted on April 18, 2012 by epbeaumont

My Brain Sister and Beta is currently reading my novella The Lost Pissarro. She had the following comments: “One of the things I thought was cool: it keeps in the spirit of urban fantasy because Minneapolis is a character. If … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Pulp and Proud

Posted on April 10, 2012 by epbeaumont

I owe a considerable debt to my writing buddy Devin Harnois, who handed me a couple of books and said, “You need to read these, because I thought you already had.” 

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Genre Trouble: The MFA I don’t have

Posted on March 14, 2012 by epbeaumont

I recently launched on the project of filing all of my written work in one place, since it was scattered all over my rather overstuffed apartment. My sister suggested that I pretend that I was going to get a new … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Everybody is subcultural (Literary fiction is a genre too)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by epbeaumont

Until I started working with the National Novel Writing Month local community in the Twin Cities, my experience with peer-organized writing groups (as opposed to professionally led classes) had been nearly uniformly negative. Now, I feel as if I’ve come … Continue reading →

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Genre Trouble: Loose Baggy Monsters, or the Lasagna Theory

Posted on February 28, 2012 by epbeaumont

The overture: two epigraphs A good play, like a good lasagna, should be overstuffed: It has a pomposity, and an overreach: Its ambitions extend in the direction of not-missing-a-trick, it has a bursting omnipotence up its sleeve, or rather, under … Continue reading →

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Genre trouble: By any means necessary, or novels on the edge

Posted on February 22, 2012 by epbeaumont

The novel is the shape-shifter of the literary world, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. It can look like a diary, a bundle of letters, a collection of theatrical monologues, a cycle of tersely told … Continue reading →

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