The "By the Book" page in the Book Review section of today's New York Times has Aleksandar Hemon offering the answers. I was taken by his answer to the question "And which [genres] do you avoid?"
No advice books, least of all self-help manuals, nor any of those middlebrow smartass books that explain humanity and its evolution and history in under 500 pages and a couple TED talks.
I have expressed my reservations before about attributions of brow height, but otherwise I will not complain. I will have to look up the man's novels.
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