Old Blues Chapter and Verse | The Literary Fiction Book Tag @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded August 2019 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
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1. How do you define literary fiction?
2. Name a literary fiction novel with a brilliant character study. (An alternate to my choice would be The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather.)
3. Name a literary fiction novel that has experimental or unique writing. (An alternate to my choice would be Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake.)
4. Name a literary fiction novel with an interesting structure. (An alternate to my choice would be The Hours by Michael Cunningham.)
5. Name a literary fiction novel the explores social themes. (An alternate to my choice would be Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.)
6. Name a literary fiction novel that explores the human condition. (There is no alternate so successful at doing so as the Undset masterpiece...)
7. Name a brilliant literary-hybrid genre novel. (An alternate to my choice would be Dark Eden by Chris Beckett.)
8. What genre do you wish was mixed with literary fiction more?
9. Tag some people.

Books discussed in this video:

- Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Waterline by Ross Raisin
- Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset (trans: Tiina Nunnally)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

Other writers mentioned in this video:

Stephen King
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Michael Crichton
Clive Cussler
Dan Brown
Alice Munro
Flannery O'Connor
Charles Dickens

Jay Shay's videos on Kristin Lavransdatter (for March of the Mammoths! I can't *believe* I'd forgotten that he read it for my very own readathon!):

The Wreath:
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The Wife:
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The Cross:
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