I’ve been using John Le Carré for a while now. This is how it goes: I’ll be on a panel somewhere, in one city or another, or in front of a crowd in a bookstore — I’m using the word “crowd” in the loosest possible sense — and the genre question will come up. It comes up because I write the kind of novels that are sometimes called crime fiction and sometimes called literary fiction, whatever that is…Le Carré is worth reading whether you think you like genre fiction or not.
Emily St. John Mandel, “War is Just Business: John Le Carré’s A Delicate Truth.”
