Steve’s Weekly Blog: If Satire Feeds on Anger, Why Is It Almost Dead?

  We have no ideas, and they’re pretty firm. – Joseph Heller The decline in satiric novels as a robust, recognized category of U.S. fiction tends to be taken as a foregone conclusion, lamented but passively accepted, even as the need for satire turns acute. I say: Let’s not give up so easily. Satire and its cousin the lampoon (directed …