I have a journalist friend who does not read novels. "Why should I waste my time," he told me, "reading about something that never happened. "I've heard this before. Over my 30 years teaching literature to high school students, I always had a few who mistakenly believed that fiction is "fake." Having them read works like Of Mice and Men, The Sun Also Rises and Romeo and Juliet helped convert them, but there were those students that would not succumb to my charms. No matter what they read, they would not allow what Coleridge described as the "willing ... Read More...