Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters | Conversations with Tyler Cowen
Channel: Mercatus Center
Date: 2016-07-27

Watch to discover why Michael believes everyone should read more fiction , how we should choose books, why American popular literature is overrated, what he thinks about authors like Herman Melville, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Goethe, J.K. Rowling, Arno Schmidt, and many more, what he thinks about Amazon.com and the best sites for readers, why studying literature at college was such a big disappointment, how much covers matter, and why his opinion will never be the final word.

Transcript and links: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/michael-orthofer/

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