The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
“I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.”
“We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.”