Doctorow and Kushner have some chutzpah, eh? Sitting there and saying that it's ok for them to lie since they are serving a higher truth--to Art. Yeccchhhh...
Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Angels in America."What prize category did it win? Most incredibly bad piece-of-crap ever filmed?
Moreover, he said, he could not find a place in his book for Ethel Rosenberg's brother, David Greenglass, whose testimony helped send the couple to the electric chair. "No work of fiction could make that believable," Mr. Doctorow said. "It's too incredible and unnatural and hideous."Don't you just hate reality?
Once in a while he pens another socialist screed for the local rag.
Pharmboy,
Perhaps most important, most arts (especially emerging arts) are lacking moral taste and judgment.
Arts cannot be great without accuracy, cogency, clarity, and cohesion. They may, as John Gardner wrote in his great book "On Moral Fiction" joke, or mock, or while away the time, but these arts have no place except in the shadow of great art.
Things like, for example, the images of happy, smiling healthy Ukrainians from people who knew that millions were starving; or the passionate insistence on the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti or Alger Hiss from people who knew the truth.
Truth has never mattered to these people. Only the agenda matters.
_"...our salvation is that people know we're liars," Mr. Doctorow said."_
Salvation from what, exactly? A bad review in the NYTimes? Oh, the horror...