Rebecca Solnit shared this on her social media with the commentary that while it overlooks immigration and language status, it is "more complex" than many other such break-downs; the original poster, Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, noted it was "humbling" to read.


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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN’S SISTER: THE ECONOMICS OF BEING A WRITER

These economic realities are a huge challenge to both fairness and diversity for authors. Yet, while the debate on diversity and representation rages in the genre - in particularly in the US - almost no one is discussing the how economics of being an author silences the working class ( Read more... )

Encouraged by the NEA report, there is much handwringing at the New Yorker. You know things are dire when there are quotes by Proust, McLuhan, and Ong.

(Me, I'm just flashing back to the lectures of the "Media and Literature" course at UGA. Long live Dr. Menke and his obsession with The MatrixAnyhow, Caleb Crain briefly posits the possibility of ( Read more... )