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I'm a pretty binary reader.

I read comic books. Quite a few. Some have literary merit, but I have an enormous soft-spot for silly superhero stuff and eat it right up. That's my genre intake.

And, as far as genre goes, that's it. I don't touch it in prose. Nothing against it, but it's not my thing.

For prose, which I read regularly, these days I lean more toward short story collections and small press than anything, and lately I've been diving into more slipstream and experimental writing. But solidly crafted, urgent realism is still appreciated. I like to keep up on recent literary novels as well, though as a format I prefer short fiction. Basically, I read the kind of writing I want to emulate.

I'm a fiction writer and will be teaching and attending an MFA program in the fall, so keeping up on modern literary writing is basically going to be my job for the next two or three years, and hopefully beyond as well.

Heh, and yet there was always somthing good on.

We've apparently had very different experiences with TV.

I've never been a fan of Dickens but I kinda wanna will myself into finishing this book.

I ... really can't imagine reading Dickens for pleasure, but I know some people do. His work was serialized and he was paid by the word, and you can absolutely tell.