At Infosurhoy.com Thiago Borges profiles Livraria Suburbano Convicto (which is a hell of a name for a bookstore), 'Brazil's only bookstore specializing in marginal literature', in Brazil: Writers from the outskirts of São Paulo take center stage.
It is certainly admirable in its way:
More power (and cash) to those writers, yes -- but move on, folks.
It is certainly admirable in its way:
Marginal literature is a literary movement made up of writers from the popular classes, people who live on the margins of society and write about the daily life of poverty and crime they see outside their windows.But, as someone whose entire literary philosophy is diametrically opposed to the 'write-what-you-know' school of writing (the last thing I want to read about is what anybody sees outside their windows -- for god's sake, if I had any patience for that I might think non-fiction was worth anyone's while ...) I have to admit that this isn't really my kind of thing.
More power (and cash) to those writers, yes -- but move on, folks.