“This is the day and age for literary milk toast…”. Love that.

@book_rants

27 күн бұрын

Thanks, Jake. I appreciate the encouragement.

More unbidden commentary: it may be that the future of literature, or just books, is through avowedly political publishers (I'm referring to Nathan Cofnas's argument). As we can see with self-described free-thinking institutions, like Johnathan Haidt's Heterodox Academy, they always zoom leftward (to paraphrase Conquest) and lose all pretense of objectivity or beauty or anything else. I'm not excited about this but it may be the best alternative.

@book_rants

27 күн бұрын

All comments are welcome, especially intelligent ones like yours. I do hope you're wrong. Political minded publishers, especially if they are blindly partisan, would be the death of literature.

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@book_rants

14 күн бұрын

I am not going to pay money to grow my channel, but thanks, and good luck finding clients.

@webnasir

13 күн бұрын

@@book_rants No problem if you don't want to pay. I'll give it to you for free. If the work is good, you can make me a nice review video

First, thank god for your upbringing otherwise you'd have nothing to moderate the woke zeitgeist. Second, Pinker stuck out as an odd choice for a publisher of fiction. He's written a lot on "the craft" (bow your head in reverence) of writing and he's a brilliant guy whose books on language and psychology are unparalleled (in English, anyway). But, unless he's published some fiction I'm not aware of (quite likely, I haven't done my homework), his input will probably be, well, Pinker-esque (or Zissner-esque, et al.): cut out all the literary stuff; cut out all but the absolutely necessary adverbs and adjectives; get rid of allusions; mimesis over deigesis; etc. In other words, crystalline prose without much flavor. I wonder if that has been his input or if that's even a fair representation on my part. The Hermit sounds most intriguing. I wish them luck. thanks for the review!

@book_rants

27 күн бұрын

First of all, thanks for your comments. My ability to call bullshit on the current zeitgeist is not only my upbringing, but the books I've read and the life I've lived. But you're right that my parents raised me sensibly. Pinker doesn't publish with Heresy Press, he just supports the cause, as does everybody else on the advisory board. It would be great if one day Heresy published Alexie, Diaz, or even Oates. By the way, I think you represented at least Zinsser well.