She calls her chosen genre "light fiction".
Indian readers of English can today find homegrown works of chick lit, techie lit, detective fiction, even what the scholar E. Dawson Varughese has called "crick lit" — fiction about cricket.
It would be interesting to know how many contemporary writers of light fiction are familiar with Peacock.
Pang, like many Thai girls her age, is a devoted reader of yaoi, a genre of light fiction about schoolboys in love, which originated in Japan.
You slit open the belly, tug out the guts, strip naked, crawl inside, read a little light fiction for a while, and nod off.
At home with my yearly harvest, I quickly burned through all the light fiction before attempting some of the more difficult novels.
If I take pleasure only in the "light fiction" of mysteries, thrillers or romances, I am like someone who enjoys no physical activities more challenging than walking around the block or sitting in a rocking chair.
Like David Lodge, Nicholson makes light fiction out of heavyweight subjects, and there are good jokes to be made out of the fusion of lunacy and literary criticism -- some of the inmates are more articulate exponents of literary theory than the narrator.
"Their work is far too important for instant analysis," declared the convert from a career anchored in the light fiction of Zane Grey, Ollie North and the intelligence reports of Bill Casey.
On the basis of a surviving scrap of print, Plato hypothesizes a novelist called Charles Dickens, who wrote a work of light fiction called "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection".
In bed, he may read light fiction (especially mysteries) and listen to jazz or classical music — unless there is an old John Ford western on television, Ford being one of his favorite directors.
