There Is No Such Thing As The ‘Literary Establishment’

Author Geoff Dyer: “It’s one of those expressions and concepts whose rhetorical potency and convenience derive, imprecisely, from the fact that no one stops to think whether it means anything at all – any more than a squash player pauses to consider why there’s a wall at the back of the court. … [And] like a squash court wall again, [it] exists in order to have stuff hurled against it.”