How about bad spelling?
More seriously, defining a piece of writing as "literature" is a subjective exercise among people who generally graduate from the same schools, live in the same neighborhoods (Manhattan West Side for example), attend the same parties, vote for the same candidates, and all nod to each other in smug agreement that the rest of us are knuckle dragging morons. They are the type of people for whom in another age the guillotine was invented.
Right, he couldn't spell Pablum right!
For those of you under 50 or so, Pablum was a baby food, very bland. So very bland literature became Pablum.
Right, he couldn't spell Pablum right!
For those of you under 50 or so, Pablum was a baby food, very bland. So very bland literature became Pablum.