TABLOID AS GENRE: I’m noticing now a connection that should, perhaps, have been obvious, between my defense of tabloid journalism as vs the complacent “objectivity” of the newspapers of record and my defense of genre fiction as vs the complacent assumptions of “realist” fiction. Those of us who believe that reality, such as it is, is misrepresented by contemporary arbiters of soi-disant objective news and realist fiction, might perhaps prefer those who know that when they tell the truth they will have to “tell it slant.”

Ouch, I can’t believe I said “soi-disant.” I drink bottled water, too. Feel free to despise me!