"Higgins, Evans, Goolrick, Osborn, and Steiner were never in the running for Bookers or Pulitzers or Nobel Prizes. All these writers ever managed to accomplish was to entertain huge numbers of bookworms with eminently readable and often incredibly compelling stories. You could do a lot worse with your life."
https://quillette.com/2022/12/20/in-memoriam-farewell-to-the-pop-fiction-giants-we-lost-in-2020/
