Steinmetz, Aaron

When I was in college I would have class-long arguments with, well, pretty much the whole class about the importance of entertainment. They would ask me what my stories meant. They wanted to know the deeper meaning of my stories and how they reflected real life in some meaningful way. My response? It was generally the same every time. I'd give them a class-long raspberry and the statement: "It doesn't mean anything!" Because I am an entertainer. I'm not out to change the world. My books will never be nominated for a Nobel Prize, will likely never be on Oprah's book club (much as I would like t...