genres
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More than other literary genres, the short story is produced to meet a ready market—or it once was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
In response Kundizeza wrote: "To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The box-office failure of “Digger” over the weekend shows how hard it remains for movie studios to pack theaters with original films in genres other than horror, Ben Fritz notes for the Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
That’s why we love dancehall, Afrobeats, amapiano and now as we’ve seen in the last years, Afro House, and these other genres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Jazz celebrity though he was, Duke Ellington disliked his music being pigeonholed as ‘jazz’; he preferred simply to call it ‘American music’, and he experimented in many forms and genres.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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