Savage's essay has attracted both derision and amens in newspapers and journals, on social media and Substacks, over drinks and in group chats. "I think the nerve I hit is fairly obvious," Savage said in an interview, adding, "being able to put numbers behind it was cathartic to some people and triggering to others." Humming underneath the disputation is a less tangible but more significant question. Let us say the perspective of the straight white man is being dampened in the world of literary fiction. Should we care? from The Death and Life of the Straight White Man's Novel [NY Times; ungated]