200 Yrs.

The Dickens you say!What would the social reformer say about the completely non-ironic references to debtor's prisons & poor houses made by contemporary conservatives?

And look, we're linking to this is all, not necessarily endorsing it. We're decidedly middle-brow & sho nuff enjoyed the Dickens we read in school, but we're not going beyond that. (This we might read. Tee vee is king.) It would be no surprise if Harold Robbins or Jackie Susann were the only later mid-20th century writers remembered & still in print 150-odd yrs. from now. (Assuming there's anything left to sit on. And for all we know virtually everything may be perpetually in print if there is any technology left, & the phrase "still in print" will be meaningless.)