Between Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists and The McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, I'm wondering if we're seeing a literary resurgence towards "genre" fiction. One can only hope – a swing away from the midlife-crisis-on-paper school of literature can only be healthy. That, and there's a real shortage of good, literary genre magazines out there. For those of us with a taste for the slightly fantastic, it's difficult to find places to break into the market.