"Perhaps my middle brow is showing but this novel, and the criticisms of it, make me wonder about the way we think about what is literary, as if plot is gauche. As if literary fiction should be about creating a mood. As if creating a story with twists and turns should be left to popular fiction. Reflecting this division, it seems to me that the adjectives applied to literary fiction are unduly stationary - 'haunting', 'spare', 'beautiful', 'bleak' - while adjectives implying pace and movement are reserved for potboilers - 'rollicking', 'page turning', 'sweeping'."
- Lisa Pyror, reviewing
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas in the SMH
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