You know the old saying: To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Well, that's only sometimes true. In the case of the academic-literary establishment—the community I lovingly call "li-fi"—the better analogy is: To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.#6407•
Truth is, I don't care. That's a matter for critics and teachers to argue about. What I care about is this: Stories change us. They create communities of people with shared memories.#6405•