Are you more or less likely to read a literary novel if it has shades of what has traditionally been considered genre fiction?

timotee says...

In "The Invasion of the Genre Snatchers," Jeanette Winterson was mentioned as a literary writer who has used genre conventions in her work, but it seems to me that, from the start, certainly from "Sexing the Cherry," she has been, along with Graham Joyce and Jonathan Carroll, one of our very best English-language magical realists, "magical realism" being a term often used by academic snobs when a particular work is of enormous literary value, but they do not want to recognize it as also being "genre."