I think the same sort of considerations carry over into the most serious literature: what's the story?

And no wonder the public had given up, supposedly, on serious literature.

But this is a class in the writing of serious literature.

And even you will have to admit that your story is not serious literature.

No one knows how many people in America read serious literature.

Not the sort of stuff of which serious literature was made, but so what?

What I discovered is that children's books are serious literature.

Recent surveys indicate that only 7 to 12 percent of adults read serious literature.

After all, most of our serious literature is about human misery.

But in later times those beliefs turned to smoke; at least they did for the writers of serious literature.