We May Freak Out Globally, But We

The Novelist Has More And More To Say To Readers Who Have Less And Less Time To Read: Where To Find The Energy To Engage A Culture In Crisis When The Crisis Consists In The Impossibility Of Engaging With The Culture?

I Find It A Huge Strain To Be Responsible For My Tastes And Be Known And Defined By Them.

Deploring Other People--their Lack Of Perfection--had Always Been Our Sport.

I Can't Stomach Any Kind Of Notion That Serious Fiction Is Good For Us, Because I Don't Believe That Everything That's Wrong With The World Has A Cure.

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