Weird; I seem to have missed this comment when it was first posted.
I guess I'm less concerned about my tastes than with the disconnect with the editors here; Ann, Jeff, and Matt are all people whose opinions I respect, even though I know I don't always agree with them. So the fact that a not-insignificant percentage of the stories they selected were ones that I bounced off of creates some cognitive dissonance for me; I end up feeling like I'm not seeing what they were aiming for, like I might be missing the point.
I think there are a lot of folks who are largely considered "literary" who may slot just as well into fantasy, at least part of the time--the magical realists, obviously, and people working in the tradition of, say, Kafka--and I like a lot of that stuff. So I do like to go beyond the usual suspects in that regard.
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Date: 2010-10-16 04:32 pm (UTC)I guess I'm less concerned about my tastes than with the disconnect with the editors here; Ann, Jeff, and Matt are all people whose opinions I respect, even though I know I don't always agree with them. So the fact that a not-insignificant percentage of the stories they selected were ones that I bounced off of creates some cognitive dissonance for me; I end up feeling like I'm not seeing what they were aiming for, like I might be missing the point.
I think there are a lot of folks who are largely considered "literary" who may slot just as well into fantasy, at least part of the time--the magical realists, obviously, and people working in the tradition of, say, Kafka--and I like a lot of that stuff. So I do like to go beyond the usual suspects in that regard.