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Author canceled after defending literary classics, ‘attacking’ educator
New York Post ^ | January 2, 2021 | Paula Froelich

Posted on 01/05/2021 11:52:20 AM PST by nickcarraway

A critically acclaimed young adult author has been “canceled” and dropped by her agent after vociferously defending classic books in a Twitter-fueled rage.

Jessica Cluess, the author of the popular “Kingdom of Fire” series (among others) picked a fight with an anti-racist and anti-bias educator Lorena Germán who founded the #DisruptTexts movement which aims to get more works by people of color into schools and to look critically at works by famous white “classic” authors.

“Did y’all know that many of the ‘classics’ were written before the 50s? Think of US society before then & the values that shaped this nation afterwards. THAT is what is in those books. That is why we gotta switch it up. It ain’t just about ‘being old,”‘ Germán tweeted on her now-private account on Nov. 30.

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KEYWORDS: cancelculture; literature; nathanielhawthorne; racism; scarletletter; uptonsinclair; zoreanealehurston
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Wouldn't they think the "judgmental puritans," are the good guys? Aren't they role models for the cancel culture?
1 posted on 01/05/2021 11:52:20 AM PST by nickcarraway
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“Did y’all know that many of the ‘classics’ were written before the 50s? [Duh!] Think of US society before then....


2 posted on 01/05/2021 11:57:00 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Every Freeper should buy a copy of one of her books. Donate it to a used book store or library if you don’t want it.


3 posted on 01/05/2021 11:57:57 AM PST by Borges
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By the way, the article mentions Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, part of the Harlem Renaissance.

Hurtson was a new deal-opposing conservative.

4 posted on 01/05/2021 11:58:59 AM PST by nickcarraway
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I’m trying to read Catch-22. It’s getting difficult to pick it up. Don’t know if I’ll finish. The romance novel I finished in 3 days. Classics are work. People want the easy way out.


5 posted on 01/05/2021 12:00:26 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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Omigosh. I wonder how long it will take some other agent to pick up an actual selling author whose books actually sell? LOL. Did I mention that she actually has buying readers?


6 posted on 01/05/2021 12:01:43 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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I think most classics aren’t that hard, but people don’t have an attention span today.


7 posted on 01/05/2021 12:03:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
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No need for classics, just bring bongo drums and smoke signals for the real classics.


8 posted on 01/05/2021 12:04:10 PM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Catch 22 doesn’t have a lot of story. More style. A bit dated as cynicism is so widespread. The only way to shock people now is to be a conservative. Leftism is the status quo.


9 posted on 01/05/2021 12:05:04 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: nickcarraway

One of the first fundamentals that should be taught in literature, is any story needs to be put into the context of the era it was written in. If you can’t do that, you won’t get the messages of the story. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin being a great example, slammed by woke idiots today unable to place it in context to see what it is actually saying.


10 posted on 01/05/2021 12:05:22 PM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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A white author was cancelled for calling out a black “educator”. The white author apologized, but was still cancelled, which provides a lesson: NEVER apologize — it won’t satisfy them, and just makes you look weak.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9105217/Author-canceled-DROPPED-agent-defending-writer-Scarlet-Letter.html

Her biggest sin was in pointing out that the politically-connected black “educator” was an ignorant fool.


11 posted on 01/05/2021 12:07:15 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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They celebrated “canceling” Homer in some university.

Did we think the destruction of civilization would stop at statues?

Of course, post revolution the college crowd are the first the Stalinists line up and shoot (Cambodia, for example) as they are the first to realize the revolution brings on a worse evil.


12 posted on 01/05/2021 12:07:16 PM PST by TigerClaws
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This generations classics will either be written in ibonics, or be picture books celebrating diversity.


13 posted on 01/05/2021 12:07:35 PM PST by zek157
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Reading and comprehending The classics has never been a problem for me. Except for one.

Moby Dick.

Just a typical paragraph.

“But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face. Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command. But as he sat still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate’s malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being—a repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved—this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.”

Excerpt From
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
https://books.apple.com/us/book/moby-dick/id395539950
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I cannot get through this.


14 posted on 01/05/2021 12:17:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve. DJT 11-07-20)
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Maybe the term "classics" should be reserved for works which have stood the test of time. Maybe nothing after 1900 on the list until more time passes. Or perhaps have a 200-year rule (but some 19th-century works like War and Peace definitely belong on the list). Instead of reading post-WWII popular fiction, read Homer, Sophocles, Vergil, Ovid, Sun Tzu, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Milton, etc.
15 posted on 01/05/2021 12:17:50 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Catch 22 doesn’t have a lot of story. More style. A bit dated as cynicism is so widespread. The only way to shock people now is to be a conservative. Leftism is the status quo.

It's funny as heck. The story is so full of just little quirky humor. But it's just like all books, some like different things.

Slaughterhouse 5 is another that takes a quirky way of looking at life. I read these in high school and again in college and once or twice again.... just pick up a little things.

16 posted on 01/05/2021 12:21:23 PM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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I hope they leave the statue of Homer alone. The classics would never be the same.


17 posted on 01/05/2021 12:22:05 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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‘Catch 22 doesn’t have a lot of story. More style.’

an excellent example of one hit wonders; Heller never wrote anything even remotely approaching Catch 22...

that said, it was one hell of a good read; Major Major et al...


18 posted on 01/05/2021 12:23:28 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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“Catch-22” is a terrible book. I read it but it took a year. I read the entire book in the bathtub. I kept wondering, “When is is going to get good?” People rave about it. It sucked then and it probably sucks now. Life’s too short to read bad books.


19 posted on 01/05/2021 12:23:36 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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I cannot get through this.

That passage is art. It describes a slow smoldering angry person.....that's not to be messed with.. and all sailors know "those types" on ships....

It is the descriptions and thought needed to create a mood and describe a person with words that convey the character's past and present.

As opposed to saying, " he was a really pissed off guy that nobody wanted to mess with or he might kill them...and I don't know why."

20 posted on 01/05/2021 12:26:06 PM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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