The war for the soul of literature - Salon

The war for the soul of literature - Salon: "Wood labels it 'secular comedy.' Satire, he writes, is 'religious comedy,' because it doles out 'punishment for those who deserve it' as opposed to 'secular comedy,' which offers 'forgiveness to those who don't.' In Wood's secular comedy, characters are 'free to contradict themselves without being corrected by the author, are free to make mistakes without fearing authorial judgment.'"