Is current USA fiction relevant--I don't agree with this article, but what do you think.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/04/07/how-trump-shook-up-the-book-industry-217832

If you read fiction regularly. I think "current fiction" is very relevant, and if not "current" the way this writer defines it (written yesterday) why is she not mentioning Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Sinclair Lewis, It Can't happen here, George Orwell, 1984? Not to mention dystopian novels and movies like Wakananda, Justin Cronin, The Passage and the mocking jay novels. It may be writers comment less now, after what happened to Rushdie. But that does not mean what they write is "irrelevant." strange. Sometimes I can't figure out whose side Politico or The Hill or on. What do you think? It may also be that people read less overall. And what about the very relevant, even glutted market for trump related non-fiction. A thought--maybe people are so socked by the surreal reality, they can't deal with fiction. But there are loads of fiction related for instance to global warming, it's not even possible to read it all, or it may be because it takes longer to write fiction than to write non-fiction. km Kyi May Kaung Words Sounds and Images