Literary Tastes are Fickle

Readers, faithless creatures that we are, have short memories and an insatiable appetite for the new, the hyped and the freshly reformulated...Talented writers who are no longer in the forefront, even if it is not of their own doing, are like clothes that have long gone out of fashion, invoking faint memories of times gone by.

Daphne Merkin, The New York Times Book Review, March 15, 2020