Logan's diagnosis of contemporary fiction: writers with comfortable Western lives lack the hard experiences (wars, whaling ships) that drove the classics, so big questions of life, death and God are largely absent. His next book tries to bring them back.
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- Comfort narrows what writers can say
Without hard experiences like war or whaling, comfortable modern writers fall back on writing about themselves as young city dwellers. The work loses touch with the big questions of life…