Doing his part to keep all that in place is bestselling author Jonathan Lethem. His latest is More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers.
My conversation with Jonathan Lethem:
"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"