Fiction Is Alive: LA Times's Carolyn Kellogg Responds To The NY Observer

Fiction Is Alive: LA Times's Carolyn Kellogg Responds To The NY Observer

Every few years someone finds a platform to declare fiction dead, despite all evidence to the contrary. This time around, it's Lee Siegel, writing in The Observer. Siegel's piece flogs a tired horse, that fiction is less central to our culture than it was in the 1950s and 1960s, and not as good. It's hard to figure out which is more problematic: how poorly Siegel's argument is made, or how many things he gets wrong in the process.

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