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The New Yorker: Fiction cover image

Elif Batuman Reads Sylvia Townsend Warner

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Is There a Moral Quagmire in Fiction Writing?

Do you think it's a story with a moral at the end, or do you think it’s a story about the kind of unchained madness of fiction writing? "My whole life, i believe that it should be a quagmire, and tat that is what makes great art. And if you already know what the answer is, than it's bad art"

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