"I worry when somebody from one particular tradition stands up and says, ‘The novel is dead. The..."

““I worry when somebody from one particular tradition stands up and says, ‘The novel is dead. The story is dead.’ I find this to be unfair, to put it mildly. You told your own story, and now you’re announcing the novel is dead. Well, I haven’t told mine yet.””

- Chinua Achebe, a man who leveraged the full humanistic potential of literary writing. Rest in peace. (via grayandgreen)