Lennard's more recent involvement with work on genre fiction, particularly Crime Writing, Science fiction, and Children's literature, reflects a long history of 'unliterary' reading and interest in literature as a means of living as well as a subject of aesthetic and historical study.
Lennard's current work on genre fiction, specifically crime writing, science fiction, and children's literature, is a continuation of his long-standing fascination with literature as a way of life and an object of artistic and historical analysis.