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When reading preferences feel illegitimate

Everyone in my MFA program talks about their literary influences but I mostly read genre fiction and feel like a fraud

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Cultural hierarchies around literary taste can create shame about the sources that actually nourish one's creative imagination.

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