Noel Gallagher expressed a similar sentiment in an interview with GQ. ‘I only read factual books,’ he said. ‘Novels are just a waste of f—king time.
I can’t suspend belief in reality… I just end up thinking, “This isn’t f—king true.”’Neither man achieved his position without some intuition for the public mood.
Roth may have been depressed by the trajectory of his own readership. His 1969 novel Portnoy’s Complaint, about a sex-crazed young Jewish man, sold 400,000 copies in a year and made its author internationally famous.
The book was a moral cause célèbre for its graphic depictions of masturbation. Its content, rather than the identity of its author, was a subject for debate, a dipstick with which the culture could be tested.When was the.
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