I feel like it shouldn't be controversial to say this, but...plenty of literary fiction is pretty good.

Every time I write anything about the world of academic creative writing, people will post comments that are all like, "Yeah, right on, Rahul! Those guys only write awful books about old white male professors who want to fuck their students!* You need to stick it to all that boringness!"

Whereas, I'm like...ehh...that's not really what I was talking abou…