![It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-remains-a-mystery-to-me-why-some-of-that-pulp-fiction-should-be-judged-infer.jpg)
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