PSA: My book club fought for 45 minutes over whether a novel was 'literary' or just 'genre'

Last month at our meeting in Portland, someone called a fantasy book 'not real literature' and the room exploded. We spent the whole time arguing about what counts as literary versus genre fiction instead of talking about the actual story. I finally had to step in and say the author themselves called it speculative fiction on their website. Has anyone else had a book club debate spiral into weird definitions like this?

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