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“We have turned fiction into a lukewarm mirror, reflecting back at us our most pedestrian fears, anxieties, and quirks—because heaven forbid we be challenged by something we don’t immediately understand. The cult of relatability is suffocating creativity, killing the ambition of the novel, and dragging literature into a pit of shallow, self-referential mediocrity. A bunch of YouTubers armed with syntax.” — Jay Sreekumar
We have turned fiction into a lukewarm mirror, reflecting back at us our most pedestrian fears, anxieties, and quirks—because heaven forbid we be challenged by something we don’t immediately understand. The cult of relatability is suffocating creativity, killing the ambition of the novel, and dragging literature into a pit of shallow, self-referential mediocrity. A bunch of YouTubers armed with syntax.