A Point-By-Point Takedown Of Lee Siegel’s Fiction Claim

“1. Siegel: ‘Fiction has become culturally irrelevant.’ People buy books, read books, are right now camping on sidewalks to see ‘Twilight: Eclipse,’ a movie based on a book, and they camp out in bookstores too, when a novel they’re eager for is sold at midnight. Maybe these people are not part of our culture?”