{"quotes":[{"text":"I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one by Will Oldham and one by Joanna Newsome. Someone on the production phoned me to say that I couldn't have either record because they were 'too alternative' and I could just pick two from their playlist. Now, personally, I think that Radio 2's listeners would dig both Joanna Newsome and Will Oldham if they heard their records, and that the fact they don't get to hear them contributes to the cultural wasteland we live in. I told them that I'd been to see Joanna Newsome in the Albert Hall a couple of weeks before and it had been sold out. How could she be 'too alternative'? 'Alternative' and 'mainstream' aren't strictly to do with whether things are popular or minority interest. They are ideological labels. Someone like Joe Pasquale would be called 'mainstream' and regularly pops up on TV, but would play the smaller end of the touring-theatre circuit. If Joanna Newsome can sell out Albert Hall, why can't she get played on Radio 2? I would agree that it's because her work is too layered, challenging and interesting. Think about that. What you get to hear about is filtered, and not filtered to get rid of useless cunts like Joe Pasquale, but of things that might enrich your life.","author":"Frankie Boyle","tags":["alternative","culture","joanna-newsome","mainstream","music"],"id":26392,"author_id":"Frankie+Boyle"},{"text":"The worst way to drown is in mainstream.","author":"J.R. Rim","tags":["drown","irony","mainstream","mainstream-media","quotes"],"id":30749,"author_id":"J.R.+Rim"},{"text":"This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right.","author":"J.R. Rim","tags":["mainstream","media","media-manipulation","messages","right","truth"],"id":32723,"author_id":"J.R.+Rim"},{"text":"Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.","author":"Roy L. Pickering Jr.","tags":["african-american","amazon","contemporary","diverse-characters","fiction","kindle-scout","literary","mainstream","new-york-city","novel","poc","roy-l-pickering-jr","upmarket-commercial-fiction","women-s-issues"],"id":107275,"author_id":"Roy+L.+Pickering+Jr."},{"text":"So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud to wear that brand painted on the backs of our biker’s jackets.","author":"Hal Duncan","tags":["brand","elitists","genre-fiction","literature","mainstream","mundane","proud"],"id":134706,"author_id":"Hal+Duncan"},{"text":"Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various ways artists not only cross borders but also subvert them. In mythology, the old Trickster figure Coyote is a champion border crosser, mischievously dashing from the land of the living to the land of the dead, from the wilderness world of magic to the human world. He tears things down so they can be made anew. He's a rascal, but also a culture hero, dancing on borders, ignoring the rules, as many of our most innovative artists do. I'm particularly drawn to art that crosses the borders critics have erected between 'high art' and 'popular culture,' between 'mainstream' and 'genre,' or between one genre and another -- I love that moment of passage between the two; that place on the border where two worlds meet and energize each other, where Coyote enters and shakes things up. But I still have a great love for traditional fantasy, for Imaginary World, center-of-the-genre stories. I'm still excited by series books and trilogies if they're well written and use mythic tropes in interesting ways.","author":"Terri Windling","tags":["border-crossing","editing","fantasy","genre","magic","mainstream","popular-culture","reading","writing"],"id":140623,"author_id":"Terri+Windling"},{"text":"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["academics","advertising","bloggers","commercial","creatives","ghostwriting","journalists","literary","literature","mainstream","novelists","poets","writers","writing"],"id":156786,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"...The locale did not make him think of her, nor did most things. He felt no negativity about the time they had spent together, but simply did not dwell on it much. She had been a seat filler, memorable as the smiling face of a beautiful girl in the window of a passing train, inspiring a fleeting moment of joy and promise, immediately forgotten with the opening of that day’s newspaper.","author":"Roy L. Pickering Jr.","tags":["african-american","amazon","contemporary","diverse-characters","fiction","kindle-scout","literary","mainstream","new-york-city","novel","poc","roy-l-pickering-jr","upmarket-commercial-fiction","women-s-issues"],"id":162079,"author_id":"Roy+L.+Pickering+Jr."},{"text":"You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.","author":"Alan Ashley-Pitt","tags":["choices","different","dissolve","distinct","life","mainstream","no-one","strive"],"id":162936,"author_id":"Alan+Ashley-Pitt"},{"text":"And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.","author":"Roy L. Pickering Jr.","tags":["african-american","amazon","contemporary","diverse-characters","fiction","kindle-scout","literary","mainstream","new-york-city","novel","poc","roy-l-pickering-jr","upmarket-commercial-fiction","women-s-issues"],"id":164531,"author_id":"Roy+L.+Pickering+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}