The Reading Experience: Mediocre Novelists

Hey, what's wrong with adding another cog to the academic tenure machine? I see nothing wrong with studying mediocre novels that nobody would really want to read except for research purposes. It is a little "funny" that Gates would say, "it seems less important to add another white woman."

"All those white women are the same, anyway? Same old complaints about patriarchy and the terrors of middle-class existence?"