I’m in my 40s. I read more nonfiction than fiction. I read fiction almost exclusively until around 2012, including lots of classics and modern literary fiction.

I think written fiction today has limited ability to enlighten; it’s all target-written for one market or another (either a genre market or if litfic, for MFA students and professors) and is as fragmented and insular as the rest of our society. I already know the third world sucks and that there’s some way people can survive poverty and terrible ordeals without breaking and that people call it “the human spirit”.

When I want an entertaining novel I read something in a genre and don’t take it too seriously.