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Despite the implied "cancellation" of the authors listed (Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and John Updike), whatever that means, you will find it is easy
by phdelightful 5y ago
Despite the implied "cancellation" of the authors listed (Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and John Updike), whatever that means, you will find it is easy to get ahold of as many books written by these guys as you want. If you shouted to a train full of people that you were reading them, you'd get blank stares. I can't help but feel as if the author of this piece is fighting an imaginary battle.
- a0-prw 5y agoI think he's unhappy about this: "I suspect you will have to search high and low to find them on a university syllabus, so comprehensively have their reputations been trashed for political reasons."
- jfengel 5y agoOr alternatively, people just don't care about his favorite mid-20th-century authors. People keep writing great books, and not everything introduced to the "canon" gets to stay there. It's not politics. It's just taste and fashion. It helps that some of the current taste and fashion is "Hey, how about we read some books not written by dead white men?" That's not so much "politics" as "there's only so much space on the syllabus".