Romance (as a category) is far from dead
The publishing industry and readers swoon over romance novels
“WOW, THIS is not what I was expecting at all,” says Allison, a nurse, remembering the first romance novel she ever read. Having shared the general literary snobbery that clings to romance novels, she is now evangelical about the genre. “It is wonderful to take somebody who is kind of sceptical and then tell them about it.”
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Novel affairs ”
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