Re: Is fiction important?
Forgot to say, I don't read because it may benefit me, I read because literature is its own justification. If I learn something from it, that's great, but art needs no function to have merit.
The trouble with Sucher's approach is that it smacks a bit too much of the UK government's approach to culture as being a creative industry.
Art is not a creative industry, whether it makes us money as a nation or helps us be better leaders in the workplace is irrelevant to its value.
IMO and all that.
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