"A poet has been appointed ambassador. A playwright is elected president. Construction workers stand..."

““A poet has been appointed ambassador. A playwright is elected president. Construction workers stand in line with office managers to buy a new novel. Adults seek moral guidance and intellectual challenge in stories about warrior monkeys, one-eyed giants, and crazy knights who fight windmills. Literacy is considered a beginning, not an end… . Well, maybe in some other country, but not this one. In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is...