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Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters

Conversations with Tyler

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The Importance of Beliefs in Literature

I think the american dominance is still too overbearing worldwide. Most of it bores me and like one of my pieces of advice for people going to a bookstore i would just say don't buy an american novel all other things equal. I have great difficulty with religion  the god god concept is just i can't i really don't know what to regard that it it it is one i can't fit into my worldview and any of my actions. Even though i read a great deal which also again is based on this, part of it always remains foreign to me but when it comes time to write some new work there will be no turning back.

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