J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocr...
Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children and life is the other way around.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.