Only recognize old Communist Party member (many decades ago) Vivian Gornick. Have no idea who the other idiots are.
I’m reading Orwell, Hoffer, Haynes/Klehrs, Romerstein, Loudon, Rummel, etc. Real people who lived real lives and saw reality as it was.
Thanks for the reading list!
I know Orwell and Hoffer and RJ Rummel.
Haynes, Klehr, Romerstein, and Loudon are new to me.
Real people who lived real lives and saw reality as it was.
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I’ve learned that the majority of books on the NYT list, plus anything even short-listed for all the various literary awards has a high probability of being turgid and unreadable.
A skim of reviews and browsing the text, usually supports this conclusion.
I stopped submitting last summer, when submission guidelines after submission guidelines highlighted the need for diversity or requested work on topics such as global warming/criticism of capitalism,or that priority would be given to work by members of all the various groups in the woke alphabet listings.
When this is all history, there will be many works discovered that dissent from the current enforced topics and *standards*. Not sure I’ll still be here, but writers write, even when the PTB refuse to publish.