February 21 - Park Article

I think that reading a piece specifically because of the author's fame is ridiculous. The celebrity-author craze is a money-making scheme, of course, that has no right to impose upon young readers. I don't think that adolescent literature deserves to be littered by pieces written by celebrities just for the sake of their fame, but if the piece itself is actually good, maybe it should be considered. I do not think that a person's fame should discredit them as an author automatically, but I think that the literature should be able to exist as good writing without the author's influence.