At a guess, I'd say people (i.e. book critics) claim he "saved YA" because a lot of the more popular YA books before he got big were also genre fiction - which doesn't count as "real" literature. Because it's not like genre works can explore important themes or convey a message.
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Date: 2014-07-16 01:51 pm (UTC)At a guess, I'd say people (i.e. book critics) claim he "saved YA" because a lot of the more popular YA books before he got big were also genre fiction - which doesn't count as "real" literature. Because it's not like genre works can explore important themes or convey a message.