The Puritan Work Ethic And American Attitudes Toward Fiction
Laura Miller writes that there's a deep-seated prejudice in the collective American mind - especially with respect to educating children - against enjoying fiction purely for pleasure: one should always be able to find in a story some lesson or moral; the goal should always be some sort of self-improvement. Salon 01/31/12

Posted February 1, 2012 12:04 AM