Aby Yap's "Sweeter than Bukayo, Cheesier than Keso"

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Thank you Aby Yap for the heads up on the article "SWEETER THAN BUKAYO, CHEESIER THAN KESO" originally published at Illustrado Magazine.

Excerpt:

Tessa’s emphasis has always been respect for the readers. The challenge to the writer, she states, is to make the novels just as accessible, understandable, and enjoyable to a high school graduate as to a doctorate degree holder.

“Very few of our people read literary books. It’s a reality that there are more readers of Filipino romance novels,” she argues. “If all good writers stick to high literature, what’s left to the mass market readers but junk? We writers owe it to the readers to write for them and give them choices.”