"There is a huge delusion in the literary world that the things that writers do matter on a massive scale. That is completely alien to my experience of America and any other places I've been anywhere in the world. Books and reading do not matter to the American public at all. Most people hate reading and are anti-intellectual. The things they care about are sports, their family, their property, and their vehicle."
~~ from The Future of Literary Criticism, with Book Critic Christian Lorentzen
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