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Tyler Cowen: belief

27 Jul 2016 Conversations with Tyler Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters

“Again, this is Michael’s book, Columbia University Press, The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction. Michael Orthofer, in my opinion still vastly underrated.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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belief
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27 Jul 2016
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Very much so, yes. I was disappointed at university. Basically, you could study literature without reading basically, without reading fiction especially, and more importantly without really engaging in fiction, I think. Literature can lend itself to theory. You can build theory around it, but I don’t find that a useful way of dealing with literature. Anyway, thank you very much, Michael. Again, this is Michael’s book, Columbia University Press, The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction. Michael Orthofer, in my opinion still vastly underrated. [laughs] Thank you so much.…

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