Novelist Eliza Clark agrees. “Basically all of our brightest and most successful young male novelists – and there’s a hard divide between those and our old guard male novelists – are queer or men of colour or both. That’s great: I think it represents a true diversifying of the industry, though obviously we have a lot more work to do.”
As the article notes, today's male authors are gay and/or black, and they tend to write books that appeal to gays and blacks. Publishing has gone the same path as Hollywood.
Midcentury male novelists — Mailer, Roth, Updike, Bellow, James Jones, William Styron — took horny hetero guy literature so far that there wasn’t much further to take it. Nowadays most novel-readers, editors and agents are women, so even if there were great male writers out there, they’d have a hard time getting published.
Exactly, there used to be dozens of adventure series of books for men. Now it is women, gays, and blacks writing book for themselves with tons of woke trash that real men, especially white, want to read.