Author and critic Lev Grossman on why there are no good books

Susan Wyndham - Sydney Morning Herald
 

There are no good books, says American writer Lev Grossman - an unnerving opinion from a successful author of five novels who also spends much of his working life assessing other writers' books as critic for Time magazine.
Grossman's provocative argument, which he will make at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on Saturday, signals a changing literary scene that has pulled authors and critics off their pedestals.

Lev Grossman is in Sydney to speak at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Photo: Daniel Munoz

"The fundamental principle that has organised our literary universe for centuries, that some books are good and some are bad, some have value and some don't, is crumbling," he says.   MORE