Sentence examples for bad literature from inspiring English sources

Why is bad literature so depressing?

The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky once wrote that bad literature was a form of treason.

And a lot more time is stolen by bad literature than by bad art – which, after all, you can just walk past.

By Madeleine Schwartz July 29, 2010 The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky once wrote that bad literature was a form of treason.

There is only good and bad literature.' The writer also poured scorn on any nationalistic pride following the fact that this year an Irishman had won the Booker.

Decades ago, when translation was his livelihood, he specialized in "bad literature," he said: it took less time to translate but paid just as well.

I wonder if it's coincidence that the Malley debacle--like the age of the bad-poetry anthology, and George Orwell's seminal writing on "good bad" literature--came in the thick of the Modernist era, when standards shifted disorientingly, blurring the already-contested boundaries of "good" and "bad". The manifestos of the time announced new styles in no uncertain terms.

BUT worse than the attributable borrowings are the cliches so firmly grounded in bad baseball literature that they are beyond tracing.

Sinclair Lewis's 1926 letter turning down the Pulitzer Prize because he fears that the prize has become a "sanctified tradition" and will be bad for literature.

He is an excellent Boswell, drawing out the older man's thoughts on food, the Old Masters, Picasso, DG Rossetti ("the nearest painting can get to bad breath"), literature, creativity, criminals and his friendship with Francis Bacon.

The thing in Colombia us that we learned the lesson well: that period called La Violencia (around mid-century; 300,000 deaths) produced so much bad, immediate literature that a young novelist called García Márquez was forced to question the whole approach.