Comic novels often offend as many people as they please because each reader's capacity for tolerating irreverence is different; what seems tame to one reader seems right to another, what seems corrosive to one reader seems hilarious to another. [Today, because being offended has become a cottage industry, the comic novel, because there are so many categories of people you can't make fun of anymore, is a dead genre.]
Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, 2005
Jane Smiley, 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, 2005
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