{"id":39887,"date":"2013-12-04T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T00:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/yesterdays-classic-writers-of-tomorrow.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:06:32","slug":"yesterdays-classic-writers-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/yesterdays-classic-writers-of-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday's Classic Writers of Tomorrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Predicting whose work will still be popular in the future — even less than a century down the line — can be a challenge. Today's best-seller can be tomorrow's remainders, and next week's what-ever-happened-to.<\/p>\n

That also leaves aside the divide between "literature" and "popular fiction" — a division I'm convinced that's as much about marketing and snootiness as it is about writing quality. Popular fiction is often the first to fade — but lovers of literature are sometimes themselves quick to leap on cleverness that the future won't necessarily appreciate.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to these amusing lines from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/i> (a movie best valued for its amusing lines), as Kirk and Spock ride on a bus:<\/p>\n

KIRK: You mean profanity. That's simply the way they talk here. Nobody pays any attention to you if you don't swear every other word. You'll find it in all the literature of the period.<\/i>
SPOCK: For example?<\/i>
KIRK: Oh, the collective works of Jacqueline Susann. The novels of Harold Robbins.<\/i>
SPOCK: Ah! …'The giants'.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hmmmm. Does anyone still read Susann or Robbins?<\/p>\n

As to the predictions below — I'm glad to say I actually recognize most of them, but part of that is dim memories from AP English classes in high school and my penchant for collecting quotations.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Future Classics: Readers of 1936 Predict Which Authors Will Endure<\/a><\/p>\n

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Predicting whose work will still be popular in the future — even less than a century down the line — can be a challenge. Today's best-seller can be tomorrow's remainders, and next week's what-ever-happened-to. 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