is "booktok slop" just today's pulp fiction?

weather: ☁️➡️☀️ may gray has arrived on schedule critters: the finch gang i am a high school dropout, i've never been published but i have several rejection letters, i have the attention span of a hummingbird, i've never been an english major, i don't really get poetry, and i struggle with any prose style denser than fitzgerald. my parents read danielle steel and clive cussler like every other old white couple with a combined six years of higher ed. all that is to say i don't feel i have a right to my pickiness about reading material. i could not have inherited it and i did not come by it through thoughtful study; my opinions on real literature have little credibility because i can't back them up with education or wisdom. i'd call it elitism if my taste were actually elite--i hate cheap steak, but that doesn't mean i like filet mignon. because i don't want to be the kind of person who dismisses popular art by default, and because i'm genuinely not clever enough for highbrow art, i try…