In a previouly unpublished article, Susan Sontag writes in defense of fiction in a world of fast-food media. “A great writer of fiction both creates – through acts of imagination, through language that feels inevitable, through vivid forms – a new world, a world that is unique, individual; and responds to a world, the world the writer shares with other people but is unknown or mis-known by still more people, confined in their worlds: call that history, society, what you will.”