FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION:

10 Questions for Tom Wolfe (Radhika Jones, 8/31/08, TIME)

What are your feelings on the current state of fiction? Andrew Herold, JOHANNESBURG

There's so little of it now that it's pathetic, and it's pathetic all over. Writers come from master-of-fine-arts programs now. If you add up the college education of Steinbeck, Hemingway and Faulkner, you get to spring break of freshman year.

When he puts it that way it raises the question whether the death of newspapers might not also be linked to all journalists now being college educated?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 31, 2008 6:51 PM