Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 16:17:12 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] What Do You Mean By "SF" ? Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Michael Chadon was asked: "This is an awful question to ask a writer but if you were to categorise The Yiddish Policemen's Union in a genre, which one would it be?" And he replied: "I think it is very determinedly difficult to categorise. It's science fiction, it's also mystery, it's also a love story, it's also I hope a novel of serious literary ambition and maybe accomplishment. It's all of those things at the same time, it's not one after the other, or sometimes this and sometimes that." <http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/michael-chabon-interview/2007/05/03/1177788267982.html> If that beaks, try this: http://tinyurl.com/2d5mzx mjw